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Rh :And the young men and the old together;
 * For I will turn their mourning into joy,
 * And will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
 * And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
 * And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,
 * Saith the.


 * Thus saith the :
 * A voice is heard in Ramah,
 * Lamentation, and bitter weeping,
 * Rachel weeping for her children;
 * She refuseth to be comforted for her children,
 * Because they are not.


 * Thus saith the :
 * Refrain thy voice from weeping,
 * And thine eyes from tears;
 * For thy work shall be rewarded, saith the ;
 * And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
 * And there is hope for thy future, saith the ;
 * And thy children shall return to their own border.
 * I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
 * 'Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised,
 * As a calf untrained;
 * Turn thou me, and I shall be turned,
 * For Thou art the my God.
 * Surely after that I was turned, I repented,
 * And after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh;
 * I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
 * Because I did bear the reproach of my youth.'
 * Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me?
 * Is he a child that is dandled?
 * For as often as I speak of him,
 * I do earnestly remember him still;
 * Therefore My heart yearneth for him,
 * I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the.


 * Set thee up waymarks,
 * Make thee guide-posts;
 * Set thy heart toward the highway,
 * Even the way by which thou wentest;
 * Return, O virgin of Israel,
 * Return to these thy cities.
 * How long wilt thou turn away coyly,
 * O thou backsliding daughter?
 * For the hath created a new thing in the earth:
 * A woman shall court a man.


 * Thus saith the of hosts, the God of Israel:
 * Yet again shall they use this speech
 * In the land of Judah and in the cities thereof,
 * When I shall turn their captivity:
 * 'The bless thee, O habitation of righteousness,
 * O mountain of holiness.'
 * And Judah and all the cities thereof
 * Shall dwell therein together:
 * The husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
 * For I have satiated the weary soul,
 * And every pining soul have I replenished.


 * Upon this I awaked, and beheld;
 * And my sleep was sweet unto me.

Behold, the days come, saith the, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass,