Jeremiah 31:22

World English Bible (2000)

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

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  • Jer 3:6 : 6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
  • Jer 49:4 : 4 Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?
  • Jer 2:23 : 23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
  • Num 16:30 : 30 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh."
  • Hos 4:16 : 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
  • Hos 8:5 : 5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
  • Matt 1:21 : 21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
  • Luke 1:34-35 : 34 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?" 35 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
  • Jer 3:8 : 8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
  • Jer 3:11-12 : 11 Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep [anger] forever.
  • Jer 3:14 : 14 "Return, backsliding children," says Yahweh; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 7:24 : 24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 8:4-6 : 4 Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
  • Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

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