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 petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Ps 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
• Jer 3:21–22A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
• Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
• Isa 9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
• Jer 50:4–5“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.
• Lam 5:21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
• Jer 17:14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
• Acts 3:26God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
• Luke 15:20“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Lam 3:27–30It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
• Ps 80:7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
• Ps 80:19Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
• Ps 32:9Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
• Isa 57:15–18For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Job 33:27–28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
• Luke 1:17He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
• Prov 3:11My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
• Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
• Mal 4:6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Ps 39:8–9Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
• Jer 2:30“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Prov 26:3A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
• Hos 5:12–13Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
• Ps 102:19–20For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
• Hos 11:8–9“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
• Jer 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
• Ps 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
• Zeph 3:2She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
• Jer 31:6For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”
• Hos 4:16For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
• Heb 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

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