Jeremiah 3:12
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12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say,
(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for (C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(D)I will not be angry forever.
Psalm 86:15
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15 But you, O Lord, are a God (A)merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them, (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, (B)I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; (C)turn back, turn back from your evil ways, (D)for why will you die, O house of Israel?
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Deuteronomy 4:29-31
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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (B)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31 For the Lord your God is (C)a merciful God. (D)He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
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Micah 7:18-20
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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
19 He will (E)again have compassion on us;
(F)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
(G)You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.
20 (H)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
(I)as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:19 Hebrew their
Jeremiah 3:22
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22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
(B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 33:26
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26 then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (A)For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.”
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Jeremiah 31:20
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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.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels
Jeremiah 3:18
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18 (A)In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land (B)of the north to (C)the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
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Jeremiah 3:5
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5 (A)will he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”
Psalm 145:8
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8 The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 86:5
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5 For you, O Lord, are good and (A)forgiving,
(B)abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Deuteronomy 30:2
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2 and (A)return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,
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