Jeremiah 3:14
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14 (A)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
(B)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
Hosea 2:19-20
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19 And I will betroth you to me (A)forever. (B)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 (C)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And (D)you shall know the Lord.
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Jeremiah 2:19
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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Jeremiah 31:32
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32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when (A)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, (B)though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 54:5
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5 (A)For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name;
(B)and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
(C)the God of the whole earth he is called.
Zechariah 13:7-9
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The Shepherd Struck
7 “Awake, O sword, against (A)my shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.
(B)“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8 In the whole land, declares the Lord,
two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
(C)and one third shall be left alive.
9 And (D)I will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
(E)They will call upon my name,
and (F)I will answer them.
(G)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Ezekiel 34:11-14
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The Lord God Will Seek Them Out
11 “For thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I, I (B)myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on (C)a day of clouds and (D)thick darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples (E)and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on (F)the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 (G)I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. (H)There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
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Jeremiah 31:8-10
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8 Behold, I will bring them (A)from the north country
and (B)gather them from (C)the farthest parts of the earth,
among them (D)the blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
9 (E)With weeping they shall come,
(F)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (G)walk by brooks of water,
(H)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (I)I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is (J)my firstborn.
10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will (K)gather him,
and will keep him (L)as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
Jeremiah 23:3
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3 (A)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock (B)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, (C)and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
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Jeremiah 3:8
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8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (A)I had sent her away with (B)a decree of divorce. (C)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (D)and played the whore.
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Jeremiah 2:2
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2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,
“I remember the devotion of (A)your youth,
your love (B)as a bride,
(C)how you followed me in the wilderness,
(D)in a land not sown.
Isaiah 11:11-12
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11 (A)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, (B)from Assyria, (C)from Egypt, from (D)Pathros, from (E)Cush,[a] from (F)Elam, from (G)Shinar, from (H)Hamath, and from (I)the coastlands of the sea.
12 He will raise (J)a signal for the nations
and will assemble (K)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia
Isaiah 10:22
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22 (A)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will return. (C)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
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Isaiah 6:13
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13 (A)And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned[a] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump (B)remains
when it is felled.”
(C)The holy seed[b] is its stump.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
- Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring
Romans 11:4-6
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4 But what is God's reply to him? (A)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 So too at the present time there is (B)a remnant, chosen by grace. 6 (C)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
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Romans 9:27
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27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved,
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- Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel
Jeremiah 3:1
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Isaiah 24:13-15
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13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
among the nations,
(A)as when an olive tree is beaten,
as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.
14 They lift up their voices, they sing for joy;
over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.[a]
15 (B)Therefore in the east[b] give glory to the Lord;
in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:14 Hebrew from the sea
- Isaiah 24:15 Hebrew in the realm of light, or with the fires
Isaiah 17:6
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6 (A)Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.
Isaiah 1:9
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9 (A)If the Lord of hosts
had not left us (B)a few survivors,
we should have been like (C)Sodom,
and become like (D)Gomorrah.
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