Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.\par
And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, {\i even} mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones:\par\tab The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
The womb shall forget him;\par\tab The worm shall feed sweetly on him;\par\tab He shall be no more remembered;\par\tab And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.