In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are not gods. And I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.

How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? [How] shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.

Have you not called Me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your youth?

They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Therefore "Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Lord. "Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."

"I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

so that He might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive the adoption.

Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! On account of this the world does not know you, because it did not know Him.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have defiled My portion, they have made My desirable portion a trackless wilderness.

Moreover they despised the desirable land, and did not believe His word.

in that day I helped them with My hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.

And out of one of them came forth one strong horn, and it grew very great toward the south, and toward the host.

And he that comes in against him shall do according to his will, and there is no one to stand before him; and he shall stand in the land of beauty, and it shall be consumed by his hand.

And he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many shall fail. But these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the holy mountain of beauty; [but] he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him.

The wise shall inherit glory, but the ungodly have exalted [their own] dishonor.

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

into an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

Have you not called Me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your youth?

For You are our Father; for [though] Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do You, O Lord, our Father, deliver us; Your name has been upon us from the beginning.

And now, O Lord, You are our Father, and we are clay, all [of us] the work of Your hands.

Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him.

Therefore pray in this manner: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

And if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together, so that we may also be glorified together.

so that He might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive the adoption.

And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and [that] for good to them and their children after them.

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

But we are not of [those] shrinking back to destruction, but of faith, to the saving of the soul.