Jeremiah 31:20

God reveals His tender heart, calling Ephraim His dear son for whom He yearns and on whom He will surely have mercy. Even amid discipline, God's love remains fervent.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
• Judg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
• Ps 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
• Hos 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
• Luke 15:24For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
• 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!
• Phil 1:8God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
• Isa 16:11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
• Jer 48:36Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
• 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.”
• Isa 57:16–18For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
• Jer 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
• Song 5:4My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
• Deut 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
• Gen 43:30Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
• 1 Kgs 3:26Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
• Prov 3:12for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
• Luke 15:32But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

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