Jeremiah 31:20

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.

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  • Isa 63:15 : 15 Looke downe from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thine holines, and of thy glory. Where is thy zeale and thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and of thy compassions? they are restrained from me.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 (14:5) I wil heale their rebellion: I wil loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 Then they put away the strange gods from among them and serued the Lorde: and his soule was grieued for the miserie of Israel.
  • Song 5:4 : 4 My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of the doore, and mine heart was affectioned toward him.
  • Isa 16:11 : 11 Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde like an harpe for Moab, and mine inwarde partes for Ker-haresh.
  • Gen 43:30 : 30 And Ioseph made haste (for his affection was inflamed towarde his brother, and sought where to weepe) and entred into his chamber, and wept there.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the Lorde shall iudge his people, and repent towarde his seruants, when hee seeth that their power is gone, and none shut vp in holde nor left abroad.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 Then spake the woman, whose the liuing child was, vnto the King, for her compassion was kindled toward her sonne, and she sayde, Oh my lorde, giue her the liuing childe, & slay him not: but the other sayde, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but deuide it.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like vnto thee, that taketh away iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He reteineth not his wrath for euer, because mercie pleaseth him. 19 He will turne againe, and haue compassion vpon vs: he will subdue our iniquities, and cast all their sinnes into the bottome of the sea.
  • Luke 15:24 : 24 For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found; they began to be merie.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I sayde, Howe did I take thee for children and giue thee a pleasant lande, euen the glorious heritage of the armies of the heathen, and saide, Thou shalt call mee, saying, My father, and shalt not turne from me?
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come weeping, and with mercie will I bring them againe: I will lead them by the riuers of water in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first borne.
  • Jer 48:36 : 36 Therefore mine heart shall sounde for Moab like a shaume, and mine heart shall sound like a shaume for the men of Ker-heres, because the riches that he hath gotten, is perished.
  • Lam 3:31-32 : 31 For the Lord will not forsake for euer. 32 But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
  • Hos 11:8-9 : 8 Howe shall I giue thee vp, Ephraim? howe shall I deliuer thee, Israel? How shall I make thee, as Admah? howe shall I set thee, as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within mee: my repentings are rouled together. 9 I wil not execute ye fiercenesse of my wrath: I will not returne to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man, the holy one in the middes of thee, and I will not enter into the citie.
  • Isa 57:16-18 : 16 For I will not contende for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth, for the spirite should fayle before me: and I haue made the breath. 17 For his wicked couetousnesse I am angry with him, and haue smitten him: I hid mee and was angry, yet he went away, and turned after the way of his owne heart. 18 I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, & restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my recorde, howe I long after you all from the very heart roote in Iesus Christ.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.

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  • Hos 11:8
    79%

    8Howe shall I giue thee vp, Ephraim? howe shall I deliuer thee, Israel? How shall I make thee, as Admah? howe shall I set thee, as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within mee: my repentings are rouled together.

  • Jer 31:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    17And there is hope in thine ende, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come againe to their owne borders.

    18I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe: conuert thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art the Lord my God.

    19Surely after that I conuerted, I repented: and after that I was instructed, I smote vpon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, euen confounded, because I did beare the reproch of my youth.

  • Jer 31:9-10
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    9They shall come weeping, and with mercie will I bring them againe: I will lead them by the riuers of water in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first borne.

    10Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.

  • Hos 11:1
    73%

    1When Israel was a childe, then I loued him, and called my sonne out of Egypt.

  • Hos 9:15-16
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    72%

    15All their wickednesse is in Gilgal: for there doe I hate them: for the wickednesse of their inuentions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will loue them no more: all their princes are rebels.

    16Ephraim is smitten, their roote is dried vp: they can bring no fruite: yea, though they bring foorth, yet will I slaie euen the dearest of their bodie.

  • Jer 3:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19But I sayde, Howe did I take thee for children and giue thee a pleasant lande, euen the glorious heritage of the armies of the heathen, and saide, Thou shalt call mee, saying, My father, and shalt not turne from me?

    20But as a woman rebelleth against her husband: so haue yee rebelled against me, O house of Israel, sayeth the Lord.

    21A voice was heard vpon the hie places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they haue peruerted their way, and forgotten the Lord their God.

  • Jer 3:12
    71%

    12Goe and crie these woordes towarde the North and say, Thou disobedient Israel, returne, sayeth the Lorde, and I will not let my wrath fall vpon you: for I am mercifull, sayeth the Lord, and I will not always keepe mine anger.

  • Hos 14:4
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    4(14:5) I wil heale their rebellion: I wil loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

  • Jer 2:2
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    2Goe, and crie in the eares of Ierusalem, saying, Thus sayeth the Lord, I remember thee, with the kindenes of thy youth and the loue of thy marriage, when thou wentest after me in the wildernes in a lande that was not sowen.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14But Ephraim prouoked him with hie places: therefore shal his blood be powred vpon him, and his reproche shall his Lord reward him.

  • Lam 1:20
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    20Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

  • Jer 31:3
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    3The Lord hath appeared vnto me of old, say they: Yea, I haue loued thee with an euerlasting loue, therefore with mercie I haue drawen thee.

  • Zech 10:6-7
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    6And I will strengthen the house of Iudah, and I will preserue the house of Ioseph, and I wil bring them againe, for I pitie them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will heare them.

    7And they of Ephraim shall be as a gyant, and their heart shall reioyce as thorowe wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad: and their heart shall reioyce in the Lord.

  • Isa 49:15
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    15Can a woman forget her childe, & not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe? Though they should forget, yet wil I not forget thee.

  • Isa 63:15
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    15Looke downe from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thine holines, and of thy glory. Where is thy zeale and thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and of thy compassions? they are restrained from me.

  • Isa 54:8
    70%

    8For a moment, in mine anger, I hid my face from thee for a litle season, but with euerlasting mercy haue I had compassion on thee, sayth the Lord thy redeemer.

  • Lam 3:32
    69%

    32But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

  • Lam 3:20
    69%

    20My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

  • Ps 106:45
    69%

    45And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented acoording to the multitude of his mercies,

  • Hos 11:3
    69%

    3I ledde Ephraim also, as one shoulde beare them in his armes: but they knewe not that I healed them.

  • Hos 9:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Though they bring vp their children, yet I will depriue them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.

    13Ephraim, as I sawe, is as a tree in Tyrus planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shal bring forth his children to the murtherer.

  • Lam 2:11
    69%

    11Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.

  • Jer 31:21
    69%

    21Set thee vp signes: make thee heapes: set thine heart towarde the path and way, that thou hast walked: turne againe, O virgine of Israel: turne againe to these thy cities.

  • Jer 31:15
    69%

    15Thus saith the Lord, A voyce was heard on hie, a mourning and bitter weeping. Rahel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

  • Hos 5:14
    69%

    14For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iudah: I, euen I will spoyle, and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.

  • Hos 1:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6She conceiued yet againe, & bare a daughter, and God saide vnto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more haue pitie vpon the house of Israel: but I wil vtterly take them away.

    7Yet I will haue mercie vpon the house of Iudah, and wil saue them by the Lord their God, and wil not saue them by bow, nor by sword nor by battell, by horses, nor by horsemen.

  • Hos 10:11
    69%

    11And Ephraim is as an heifer vsed to delite in threshing: but I will passe by her faire necke: I will make Ephraim to ride: Iudah shall plowe, and Iaakob shall breake his cloddes.

  • Jer 14:17
    68%

    17Therefore thou shalt say this worde vnto them, Let mine eyes drop downe teares night & day without ceasing: for the virgine daughter of my people is destroyed with a great destruction, and with a sore grieuous plague.

  • Isa 57:18
    68%

    18I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, & restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him.

  • Hos 13:12-13
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    68%

    12The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound vp: his sinne is hid.

    13The sorowes of a trauailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwise sonne, els would he not stande still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children.

  • Isa 16:11
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    11Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde like an harpe for Moab, and mine inwarde partes for Ker-haresh.

  • Hos 2:4
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    4And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.

  • Ps 31:9
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    9Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.

  • Lam 1:16
    68%

    16For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • Isa 9:21
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    21Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall be against Iudah yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jer 30:11
    68%

    11For I am with thee, sayth the Lord, to saue thee: though I vtterly destroy all the nations where I haue scattered thee, yet will I not vtterly destroy thee, but I will correct thee by iudgement, and not vtterly cut thee off.

  • Jer 15:5
    68%

    5Who shal then haue pitie vpon thee, O Ierusalem? Or who shalbe sorie for thee? Or who shal go to pray for thy peace?

  • 1 Chr 7:22
    68%

    22Therefore Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him.

  • Jer 10:19
    68%

    19Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.

  • Hos 5:9
    68%

    9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I caused to knowe the trueth.