For if you return to the Lord, your brethren and your children will be treated with (A)compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the Lord your God is (B)gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you (C)return to Him.”

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20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
(A)Therefore My [a]heart yearns for him;
(B)I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts

41 Yes, (A)I will rejoice over them to do them good, and (B)I will [a]assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:41 truly

23 (A)Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?

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