19  “‘I said,

How I would set you among my sons,

and give you a pleasant land,

a heritage most ^tbeautiful of all nations.

And I thought you would call me, My Father,

and would not turn from following me.

9  ^yWith weeping they shall come,

and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,

I will make them walk by brooks of water,

in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,

for ^zI am a father to Israel,

and ^aEphraim is my firstborn.