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 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.
• Ps 80:3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
• Jer 3:21–22A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
• Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
• Isa 9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 50:4–5In those days, and in that time, saith 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.
• Lam 5:21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
• Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
• Acts 3:26Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
• Luke 15:20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
• Lam 3:27–30It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
• Ps 80:7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
• Ps 80:19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
• Ps 32:9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
• Isa 57:15–18For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Job 33:27–28He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• Luke 1:17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• Prov 3:11My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
• Jer 5:3O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Mal 4:6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
• Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• Ps 39:8–9Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
• Isa 51:20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
• Jer 2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Prov 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
• Hos 5:12–13Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
• Ps 102:19–20For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
• Hos 11:8–9How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
• Jer 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
• Ps 85:4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
• Zeph 3:2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
• Jer 31:6For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
• Hos 4:16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
• Heb 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• Jas 1:16–18Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• Prov 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

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