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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Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?

In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weakness: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

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The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

And it shall be said, Heap it up, heap it up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.

That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, {} The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

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Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.

Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?

And you shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?

Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledges us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.

But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.

And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

And say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.