The LORD proclaims: I will restore Jacob’s tents and have pity on their birthplace. Their city will be rebuilt on its ruins and the palace in its rightful

place.

Jeremiah 30:18 (CEB)

There will be laughter and songs of thanks. I will add to their numbers so they don’t dwindle away. I will honor

them so they aren’t humiliated.

Jeremiah 30:19 (CEB)

Their children will thrive as they did long ago, and their

community will be established before me. I will punish their

oppressors.

Jeremiah 30:20 (CEB)

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I

called my son.

Hosea 11:1 (CEB)

The more I called them, the further they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the

Baals, and they burned incense to idols.

Hosea 11:2 (CEB)

Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up in my arms, but they did

not know that I healed them.

Hosea 11:3 (CEB)

I led them with bands of human kindness, with cords of love. I treated them like

those who lift infants to their cheeks; I bent down to them

and fed them.

Hosea 11:4 (CEB)