Verse 15

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

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 44:21 : 21 Remember these (O Iaakob and Israel) for thou art my seruant: I haue formed thee: thou art my seruant: O Israel forget me not.
  • Hos 11:1 : 1 When Israel was a childe, then I loued him, and called my sonne out of Egypt.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 And they shall be to me, sayeth the Lord of hostes, in that day that I shal do this, for a flocke, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his owne sonne that serueth him.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?
  • Rom 11:28-29 : 28 As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloued for the fathers sakes. 29 For the giftes and calling of God are without repentance.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 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.
  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Euen the dragons draw out the breastes, and giue sucke to their yong, but the daughter of my people is become cruell like the ostriches in the wildernesse.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 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. 27 Then the King answered, and sayde, Giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: this is his mother.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 Also the King said vnto her, What ayleth thee? And she answered, This woman sayde vnto me, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate my sonne to morowe, 29 So we sod my sonne, and did eate him: & I saide to her the day after, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him, but she hath hid her sonne.
  • 2 Kgs 11:1-2 : 1 Then Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah when she saw that her sonne was dead, she arose, & destroyed all the Kings seede. 2 But Iehosheba the daughter of King Ioram, & sister to Ahaziah tooke Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah, and stale him from among the Kings sonnes that shoulde be slaine, both him and his nource, keeping them in the bed chaber, & they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slaine.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him.
  • Lev 26:29 : 29 And ye shall eate ye flesh of your sonnes, & the flesh of your daughters shall ye deuoure.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Without vnderstanding, couenant breakers, without naturall affection, such as can neuer be appeased, mercilesse.