Jeremiah 31:18
I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, 'We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the Lord our God.
Psalm 80:3
O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
Job 5:17
"Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel's father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.'"
Lamentations 5:21
Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,
Psalm 80:7
O God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
Psalm 80:19
O Lord God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
Psalm 94:12
How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,
Jeremiah 3:21-22
"A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 17:14
Lord, grant me relief from my suffering so that I may have some relief. Rescue me from those who persecute me so that I may be rescued.
Luke 15:20
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.
Acts 3:26
God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities."
Revelation 3:19
All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
Job 33:27-28
That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
Psalm 32:9
Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.
Psalm 39:8-9
Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools' insults!
Psalm 85:4
Restore us, O God our deliverer! Do not be displeased with us!
Psalm 102:19-20
For he will look down from his sanctuary above; from heaven the Lord will look toward earth,
Psalm 119:75
I know, Lord, that your regulations are just. You disciplined me because of your faithful devotion to me.
Proverbs 3:11
My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
Proverbs 29:1
The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
Isaiah 1:5
Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.
Isaiah 9:13
The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.
Isaiah 51:20
Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the Lord's anger, by the battle cry of your God.
Isaiah 53:7
He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
Isaiah 57:15-18
For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
Isaiah 63:16
For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.
Jeremiah 2:30
"It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion."
Jeremiah 3:25
Let us acknowledge our shame. Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors. From earliest times to this very day we have not obeyed the Lord our God.'
Jeremiah 5:3
Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.
Jeremiah 31:6
Yes, a time is coming when watchmen will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, "Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the Lord our God!"'"
Jeremiah 50:4-5
"When that time comes," says the Lord, "the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.
Lamentations 3:27-30
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
Hosea 4:16
Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!
Hosea 5:12-13
I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
Hosea 5:15-2
Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yokeon her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself!
Hosea 11:8-9
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! All my tender compassions are aroused!
Hosea 14:4-8
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.
Zephaniah 3:2
She is disobedient; she refuses correction. She does not trust the Lord; she does not seek the advice of her God.
Malachi 4:6
He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."
Luke 1:17
And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."
Philippians 2:13
for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort -- for the sake of his good pleasure -- is God.
James 1:16-18
Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.
Hebrews 12:5
And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you.