Jeremiah 31:18

God hears Ephraim's repentant cry, confessing his discipline and pleading 'turn me, and I shall be turned.' True restoration begins with God-given repentance.

Cross-references · 40

• Jer 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Ps 80:3Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
• Jer 3:21–22A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
• Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
• Isa 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
• Jer 50:4–5“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
• Lam 5:21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
• Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
• Acts 3:26When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
• Luke 15:20So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Hos 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
• Lam 3:27–30It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
• Ps 80:7Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
• Ps 80:19Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
• Ps 32:9Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
• Isa 57:15–18For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• Job 33:27–28Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
• Luke 1:17And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
• Prov 3:11My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
• Jer 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Mal 4:6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
• Ps 39:8–9Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
• Jer 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
• Prov 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
• Hos 5:12–13So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
• Ps 102:19–20For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
• Hos 11:8–9How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
• Jer 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
• Ps 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
• Zeph 3:2She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
• Jer 31:6For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
• Hos 4:16For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
• Heb 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
• Jas 1:16–18Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• Prov 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

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