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How do you interpret these verses from Jeremiah 31?
This is what the Lord says:
“Sing with joy for Jacob;shout for the foremost of the nations.
Make your praises heard, and say,‘Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’
8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth.
Among them will be the blind and the lame,expectant mothers and women in labor;a great throng will return.
9They will come with weeping;they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.............
“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf,and I have been disciplined.
Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.
19 After I strayed,I repented;after I came to understand,I beat my breast.I was ashamed and humiliated
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 Is not Ephraim my dear son,the child in whom I delight?
Though I often speak against him, I still remember him.Therefore my heart yearns for him;
I have great compassion for him,”
This is what the Lord says:
“Sing with joy for Jacob;shout for the foremost of the nations.
Make your praises heard, and say,‘Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’
8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth.
Among them will be the blind and the lame,expectant mothers and women in labor;a great throng will return.
9They will come with weeping;they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.............
“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf,and I have been disciplined.
Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.
19 After I strayed,I repented;after I came to understand,I beat my breast.I was ashamed and humiliated
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 Is not Ephraim my dear son,the child in whom I delight?
Though I often speak against him, I still remember him.Therefore my heart yearns for him;
I have great compassion for him,”