Jeremiah 31:9

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Summary

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

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Bible References

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Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

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A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

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Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.

So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.

For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

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And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.

And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land:

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.