Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? And He has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

On account of sin for a little while I grieved him and struck him, and turned away My face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.

After two days He will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before Him, and shall know [Him.]

And he arose and went to his father. But when he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.

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.

A voice from the lips was heard, [even] of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel; for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God, their Holy One.

Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be Your servants; for You are the Lord our God.

In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.

They shall ask the way till [they come to] Zion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

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.

I will not act according to the fury of My wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in your midst; and I will not enter into the city.

I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away My wrath from him.

His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as [the smell] of Lebanon.

What [has] he to do anymore with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him. I am as a leafy juniper tree. From Me is your fruit found.

In vain have I smitten your children; you have not received correction. A sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not.

O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not the chastening of the Almighty.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; You have made me a reproach to the foolish.

I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for You are He that made me.

Blessed is the man whom You shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of Your law;

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteousness, and [that] You in truthfulness have afflicted me.

[My] son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him:

Why should you be smitten anymore, transgressing more and more? The whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.

On account of sin for a little while I grieved him and struck him, and turned away My face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

Therefore I [will be] as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Judah.

And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judah his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to King Jareb: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall by no means cease from you.

The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the discipline of the LORD, nor be discouraged when you are reproved;

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Be not as the horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and bridle, lest they should come near to you.

As a whip for a horse, and a goad for a donkey, so is a rod for a simple nation.

A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man, for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

And He, because of His affliction, opened not His mouth; He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will Mount Ephraim; I will pass over Judah in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my boast.

Turn us, O God, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn Your anger away from us.

Turn us to You, O Lord, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

who shall turn again the heart of the father to the son, and the heart of a man to his neighbor, lest I come and smite the earth grievously.

And he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

for it is God who is working in you, both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be Your servants; for You are the Lord our God.

We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us. Because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

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.