(A)With weeping they shall come,
    (B)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (C)walk by brooks of water,
    (D)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (E)I am a father to Israel,
    and Ephraim is (F)my firstborn.

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Have you not just now (A)called to me,
    ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—

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22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, (A)Israel is my (B)firstborn son,

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(A)“In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, (B)the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, (C)weeping as they come, and they (D)shall seek the Lord their God.

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20 (A)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    (B)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
(C)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

13     who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
    they did not stumble.

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    He makes me lie down in green (A)pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.[a]

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  1. Psalm 23:2 Hebrew beside waters of rest

17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne (A)will be their shepherd,
    and he will guide them to springs of (B)living water,
and (C)God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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21 (A)“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.

(B)“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

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(A)Pray then like this:

(B)“Our Father in heaven,
(C)hallowed be (D)your name.[a]

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  1. Matthew 6:9 Or Let your name be kept holy, or Let your name be treated with reverence

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

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19 “‘I said,
    How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
    a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would (A)call me, My Father,
    and would not turn from following me.

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(A)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    (B)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    (C)we are all the work of your hand.

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(A)then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
    and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
(B)For waters break forth in the wilderness,
    and streams in the desert;
(C)the burning sand shall become a pool,
    and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of (D)jackals, where they lie down,
    the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

(E)And a highway shall be there,
    and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
(F)the unclean shall not pass over it.
    It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
    even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 35:8 Or if they are fools, they shall not wander in it

23 and to (A)the assembly[a] of the firstborn who are (B)enrolled in heaven, and to (C)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

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  1. Hebrews 12:23 Or church

13 and (A)make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint (B)but rather be healed.

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In the days of his flesh, (A)Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, (B)with loud cries and tears, to him (C)who was able to save him from death, and (D)he was heard because of his reverence.

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  1. Hebrews 5:7 Greek he

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but (A)because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

10 For (B)godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas (C)worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, (D)what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

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18 (A)and I will be a father to you,
    and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”

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26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For (A)we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but (B)the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

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As it is written in (A)the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

(B)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(C)‘Prepare the way of the Lord,[a]
    make his paths straight.
(D)Every valley shall be filled,
    (E)and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
(F)and the crooked shall become straight,
    and the rough places shall become level ways,
(G)and all flesh shall see (H)the salvation of God.’”

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  1. Luke 3:4 Or crying, Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord

For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

(A)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(B)‘Prepare[a] the way of the Lord;
    make his paths straight.’”

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  1. Matthew 3:3 Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness

He strove with the angel and prevailed;
    he wept and sought his favor.
(A)He met God[a] at Bethel,
    and there God spoke with us—

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  1. Hosea 12:4 Hebrew him

17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,[a] (A)make your face to shine upon (B)your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 (C)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (D)our desolations, and (E)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

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  1. Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake

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