Jeremiah 31:20

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Summary

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.

Is ephraim

Luke 15:24

Are troubled

Jeremiah 48:36

Isaiah 16:11

Isaiah 63:15

I will

General references

Bible References

Is ephraim

They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.

As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him.

for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

Are troubled

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like flutes, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches that he has gotten have perished.

Therefore my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my bowels for Kir-hareseth.

Look down from Heaven, and look down from the place of Your holiness and of Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your tender affections and of Your mercies toward me? Are they withheld?

I will

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

General references

My bowels boiled, and did not rest; the days of trouble confront me.

Then they cried to Jehovah in their distress, and He saved them out of their troubles.

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

for though He causes grief, yet He will have pity according to the multitude of His kindnesses.

He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy,

For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.