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

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Bible References

Is ephraim

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born is he.

And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

Are troubled

Therefore my heart for Moab as pipes doth sound, And my heart for men of Kir-Heres As pipes doth sound, Therefore the abundance he made did perish.

Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine inward parts for Kir-Haresh.

Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where is Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves.

I will

Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.

I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.

Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth in kindness.

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My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them.

If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness,

for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,