“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 But the more they were called, the more they went away from me.
Jeremiah 31 (Ephraim is 2nd son of Joseph and one of the 12 tribes of Israel)
9 They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.