Judges 10:16

Israel puts away their foreign gods and serves the LORD, who is grieved over their misery. Repentance is proven by action, and God's compassion stirs.

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• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• Ps 106:44–45Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
• Jer 31:20Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
• Hos 11:8How 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!
• 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.
• Eph 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
• Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
• Ezek 18:30–32Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
• 2 Chr 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
• Gen 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
• Jer 18:7–8At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
• Josh 24:23“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
• Hos 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
• 2 Chr 7:14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
• 2 Chr 33:15He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
• Hos 14:1–3Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• 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.
• Heb 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
• Heb 3:10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
• John 11:34“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

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