• Jeremiah 31:18-19
  “ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
  ‘ You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
  Like an untrained bull;
  Restore me, and I will return,
  For You are the LORD my God.
  Surely, after my turning, I repented;
  And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh;
  I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated,
  Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
  
   
• Jeremiah 31:8-9
  Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
  And gather them from the ends of the earth,
  Among them the blind and the lame,
  The woman with child
  And the one who labors with child, together;
  A great throng shall return there.
  They shall come with weeping,
  And with supplications I will lead them.
  I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters,
  In a straight way in which they shall not stumble;
  For I am a Father to Israel,
  And Ephraim is My firstborn.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• 2 Peter 3:9
  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.