Is Ephraim My dear son? Or is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, remembering I remember him still. So My bowels are stirred for him; pitying I will have pity on him, a statement of Jehovah.
They shall come with weeping, and I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by torrents of waters, in a right way; they will not stumble in it. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.
And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, and not I will hate them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.
But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise up, and healing will be in His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of a stall.
I, have I conceived all this people? I, have I begotten it, that You say to me, Bear it in your bosom as the foster father bears the suckling, to the land which You have sworn to its fathers?
Jesus says to her, Do not take hold of Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God, and your God.