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I have loved you with an everlasting love,
so I am constant in my affection for you.

I build you once more; you shall be rebuilt,
virgin of Israel.
Adorned once more, and with your tambourines,
you will go out dancing gaily.

You will plant vineyards once more
on the mountains of Samaria
the planters have done their planting: they will gather the fruit.

Yes, a day will come when the watchmen shout
on the mountains of Ephraim,
‘Up! Let us go up to Zion,

to the Lord our God!’
For the Lord says this:
Shout with joy for Jacob!

Hail the chief of nations!
Proclaim! Praise! Shout:
‘The Lord has saved his people,
the remnant of Israel!’

See, I will bring them back
from the land of the North
and gather them from the far ends of earth;

all of them: the blind and the lame,
women with child, women in labour:
a great company returning here.
They had left in tears,

I will comfort them as I lead them back;
I will guide them to streams of water,
by a smooth path where they will not stumble.

For I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my first-born son.

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