Isaiah 49:15
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15 “Can(A) a woman forget her nursing child,
[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
(B)Yet I will not forget you.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:15 Lit. From having compassion
Isaiah 44:21
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Israel Is Not Forgotten
21 “Remember these, O Jacob,
And Israel, for you are My servant;
I have formed you, you are My servant;
O Israel, you will not be (A)forgotten by Me!
Psalm 103:13
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13 (A)As a father pities his children,
So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
Matthew 7:11
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11 If you then, (A)being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
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Hosea 11:1
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Jeremiah 31:20
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20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
(A)Therefore My [a]heart yearns for him;
(B)I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts
Malachi 3:17
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17 “They(A) shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My (B)jewels.[a]
And (C)I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
Footnotes
- Malachi 3:17 Lit. special treasure
Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of the (A)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (B)own children;
They became (C)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:10 boiled
2 Kings 6:28-29
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28 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”
And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So (A)we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
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1 Kings 3:26-27
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26 Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for (A)she yearned with compassion for her son; and she said, “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!”
But the other said, “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.”
27 So the king answered and said, “Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him; she is his mother.”
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2 Kings 11:1-2
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Athaliah Reigns in Judah(A)
11 When (B)Athaliah (C)the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was (D)dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs. 2 But [a]Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of (E)Ahaziah, took [b]Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.
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- 2 Kings 11:2 Jehoshabeath, 2 Chr. 22:11
- 2 Kings 11:2 Or Jehoash
Romans 11:28-29
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28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are (A)beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are (B)irrevocable.
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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56 The [a]tender and [b]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, [c]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57 her [d]placenta which comes out (A)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
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- Deuteronomy 28:56 sensitive
- Deuteronomy 28:56 refined
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit. her eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:57 afterbirth
Lamentations 4:3
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3 Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(A)Like ostriches in the wilderness.
Romans 1:31
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31 [a]undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, [b]unforgiving, unmerciful;
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- Romans 1:31 without understanding
- Romans 1:31 NU omits unforgiving
Leviticus 26:29
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Footnotes
- Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
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