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20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
is he a pleasant child?
for since I spake against him,
I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my bowels are troubled for him;
I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps:
set thine heart toward the highway,
even the way which thou wentest:
turn again, O virgin of Israel,
turn again to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou go about,
O thou backsliding daughter?
for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth,
A woman shall compass a man.

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