Lavender & Lace

“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:

‘You have disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.

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.’

Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Thought I often speak against him, I still remember him, therefore my heart years for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.