Isaiah 49:15
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15 Can a woman forget her nursing child
or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these might forget,
yet I will not forget you.(A)
Isaiah 44:21
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Israel Is Not Forgotten
21 Remember these things, O Jacob,
and Israel, for you are my servant;
I formed you, you are my servant;
O Israel, do not forget me.[a](A)
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- 44.21 Q ms Compare Gk Syr Tg: MT you will not be forgotten by me
Psalm 103:13
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13 As a father has compassion for his children,
so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him.(A)
Matthew 7:11
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11 If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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Hosea 11:1
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God’s Compassion Despite Israel’s Ingratitude
11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.(A)
Jeremiah 31:20
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20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
Is he the child in whom I delight?
As often as I speak against him,
I still remember him.
Therefore I am deeply moved for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
says the Lord.(A)
Malachi 3:17
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17 They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.(A)
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
in the destruction of my people.(A)
2 Kings 6:28-29
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28 But then the king asked her, “What is your complaint?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”(A)
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1 Kings 3:26-27
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26 But the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because compassion for her son burned within her, “Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him!” The other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”(A) 27 Then the king responded, “Give her the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.”
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2 Kings 11:1-2
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Athaliah Reigns over Judah
11 Now when Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family.(A) 2 But Jehosheba, King Joram’s daughter, Ahaziah’s sister, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s children who were about to be killed; she put[a] him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus she[b] hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not killed;(B)
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Romans 11:28-29
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28 As regards the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their ancestors, 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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56 She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,(A) 57 begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.
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Lamentations 4:3
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3 Even the jackals offer the breast
and nurse their young,
but my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.(A)
Romans 1:31
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31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.(A)
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Leviticus 26:29
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29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.(A)
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