Jeremiah 31:20

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Is Ephraim{H669} my dear{H3357} son?{H1121} is he a darling{H8191} child?{H3206} for as often{H1767} as I speak{H1696} against him, I do earnestly{H2142} remember{H2142} him still: therefore my heart{H4578} yearneth{H1993} for him; I will surely{H7355} have mercy{H7355} upon him, saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Is Ephraim{H669} my dear{H3357} son{H1121}? is he a pleasant{H8191} child{H3206}? for since{H1767} I spake{H1696}{(H8763)} against him, I do earnestly{H2142}{(H8800)} remember{H2142}{(H8799)} him still: therefore my bowels{H4578} are troubled{H1993}{(H8804)} for him; I will surely{H7355}{(H8763)} have mercy{H7355}{(H8762)} upon him, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Vpon this complaynte, I thought thus by myself: is not Ephraim my deare sonne? Is he not the childe, with whom I haue had all myrth and pastyme? For sence the tyme that I first comoned with him, I haue him euer in remembraunce: therfore my very herte dryueth me vnto him: gladly and louyngly will I haue mercy vpon him, saieth the LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Is Ephraim my deare sonne or pleasant childe? yet since I spake vnto him, I still remembred him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I wil surely haue compassion vpon him, saith the Lorde.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Upon this complaynt I thought thus by my selfe: Is not Ephraim my deare sonne? Is he not the childe with whom I haue had all my mirth and pastime? For since the tyme that I first comuned with hym, I haue hym euer in remembraunce: therfore my heart driueth me vnto hym, gladly and louyngly wyll I haue mercie vpon him, saith the Lorde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the LORD, affirm it!

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses. We will no longer call what we have made with our hands 'our gods.' In you the orphan finds mercy.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
  • Song 5:4 : 4 My beloved reached his hand through the opening, and my heart was stirred for him.
  • Isa 16:11 : 11 Therefore, my heart moans like a lyre for Moab, and my innermost being for Kir Hareseth.
  • Gen 43:30 : 30 Joseph was deeply moved at the sight of his brother and hurried out to find a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one is left—neither slave nor free.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, 'Please, my lord, give her the living child! Do not kill him!' But the other said, 'Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!'
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in steadfast love. 19 He will again have compassion on us; He will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Luke 15:24 : 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 I myself said, “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Jer 48:36 : 36 Therefore, my heart moans for Moab like the sound of flutes; it moans like flutes for the men of Kir-heres, because their accumulated wealth has perished.
  • Lam 3:31-32 : 31 For the Lord will not reject forever. 32 For though He causes grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His steadfast love.
  • Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender. 9 I will not carry out My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
  • Isa 57:16-18 : 16 I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit would faint before me—the breath of life that I created. 17 Because of their sinful greed, I was angry; I struck them and turned away in anger, yet they continued in their willful ways. 18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to them and to those who mourn for them.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I yearn for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 11:8
    79%

    8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender.

  • Jer 31:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    17 There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

    18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s lamenting: 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you are the LORD my God.'

    19 After I turned away, I repented; after I came to understand, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

  • Jer 31:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

    10 Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; declare it in the distant coastlands and say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd cares for his flock.

  • Hos 11:1
    73%

    1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

  • Hos 9:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

    16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring.

  • Jer 3:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19 I myself said, “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.

    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

    21 A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Jer 3:12
    71%

    12 Go, proclaim these words toward the north: 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD. 'I will not look on you with anger, for I am faithful,' declares the LORD, 'and I will not be angry forever.

  • Hos 14:4
    71%

    4 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses. We will no longer call what we have made with our hands 'our gods.' In you the orphan finds mercy.

  • Jer 2:2
    71%

    2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the LORD says: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

  • Hos 12:14
    71%

    14 But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet, he was preserved.

  • Lam 1:20
    71%

    20 See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in anguish within, my heart is overturned because I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

  • Jer 31:3
    70%

    3 The LORD appeared to me from far away, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have drawn you with lovingkindness.

  • Zech 10:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and it will be as though I had never rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.

    7 Ephraim will be like mighty warriors, and their hearts will rejoice as if from wine. Their children will see it and be happy; their hearts will exult in the LORD.

  • Isa 49:15
    70%

    15 Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.

  • Isa 63:15
    70%

    15 Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.

  • Isa 54:8
    70%

    8 In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.

  • Lam 3:32
    69%

    32 For though He causes grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His steadfast love.

  • Lam 3:20
    69%

    20 Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me.

  • Ps 106:45
    69%

    45 He remembered His covenant with them and relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.

  • Hos 11:3
    69%

    3 I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they did not realize it was I who healed them.

  • Hos 9:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

    13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered.

  • Lam 2:11
    69%

    11 My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

  • Jer 31:21
    69%

    21 Set up road markers for yourself; make guideposts. Take note of the road, the way by which you traveled. Return, O virgin Israel, return to your towns.

  • Jer 31:15
    69%

    15 This is what the LORD says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping—Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.

  • Hos 5:14
    69%

    14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away; I will carry them off, and no one will rescue them.

  • Hos 1:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah (Not Pitied), for I will no longer show compassion to the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them."

    7 But I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or sword, by war, by horses, or by horsemen.

  • Hos 10:11
    69%

    11 Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, but I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim; Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground.

  • Jer 14:17
    68%

    17 You are to speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people has suffered a great shattering—a crushing blow, a grievous wound.'

  • Isa 57:18
    68%

    18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to them and to those who mourn for them.

  • Hos 13:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12 The guilt of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored away.

    13 The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Isa 16:11
    68%

    11 Therefore, my heart moans like a lyre for Moab, and my innermost being for Kir Hareseth.

  • Hos 2:4
    68%

    4 Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

  • Ps 31:9
    68%

    9 You have not handed me over to the enemy, but you have set my feet in a spacious place.

  • Lam 1:16
    68%

    16 "Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."

  • Jer 30:11
    68%

    11 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you with justice but will not leave you entirely unpunished.

  • Jer 15:5
    68%

    5 Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask how you are?

  • 1 Chr 7:22
    68%

    22 Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

  • Jer 10:19
    68%

    19 Woe to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, 'This is my suffering, and I must endure it.'

  • Hos 5:9
    68%

    9 Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known what is certain.

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