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 forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; 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 disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast off forever.
• Judg 10:16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
• Ps 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
• Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
• Luke 15:24for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.
• 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.
• Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
• Isa 16:11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
• Jer 48:36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
• 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.
• Isa 57:16–18For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
• Jer 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
• Song 5:4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
• Deut 32:36For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
• Gen 43:30Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
• 1 Kgs 3:26Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
• Prov 3:12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
• Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

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