I have heard, I have heard 18 Ephraim bemoaning, “Thou hast chastened me, chastened I am, Like a calf untrained. “Turn me Thyself, and return I will, For Thou art my God. “For after I had turned away (?)(650) 19 I repented ... (?) “And after I was brought to know,(651) I smote on my thigh. “I am shaméd, yea and confounded, As I bear the reproach of my youth.”(652) Is Ephraim My dearest son,(653) 20 A child of delights? That as oft as against him I speak I must think of him still. My bowels for him are yearning, Pity him I must!—Rede of the Lord. Set thee up way-marks, 21 Plant thyself guide-posts! Put to the highway thy heart, The way that thou wentest. Come back, O maiden of Israel, 22 Back to thy towns here. How long to drift hither and thither, Thou turn-about daughter! [For the Lord hath created a new thing on earth, A female shall compass a man.](654) The next small poem, when we take from it certain marks of a later date is possibly Jeremiah’s, though this is not certain; to the previous Oracles on Ephraim it naturally adds one upon Judah. Thus saith the Lord:(655) 23 Once more shall they speak this word. In Judah’s land and her towns, When I turn again their captivity: “The Lord thee bless, homestead of justice!”(656) In Judah and all her towns shall be dwelling 24 Tillers and they that roam with flocks, For I have refreshed the(657) weary soul, 25 And cheered every soul that was pining. [On this I awoke and beheld, 26 And sweet unto me was my sleep.](658) Behold, are coming the days— 27 Rede of the Lord— When Israel and Judah(659) I sow With the seed of man and of beast; And it shall be, as I was wakeful upon them 28 To tear down and do evil,(660) So wakeful on them will I be, To build and to plant— Rede of the Lord. These prophecies of the physical restoration of Israel and Judah are fitly followed by two, in what is rather rhythmical prose than verse, which define the moral and spiritual aspects of the new dispensation; both laying stress on individual responsibility, the one in ethics, 29, 30, the other in religion, 31 ff., the proclamation of The New Covenant. They are no doubt Jeremiah’s: we shall take them up in the last lecture.