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
Isaiah 55:7
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7 (A)Let the [a]wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man (B)his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
(C)And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 55:7 Lit. man of iniquity
Micah 7:18-19
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18 (A)Who is a God like You,
(B)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of (C)the remnant of His heritage?
(D)He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in (E)mercy.[a]
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
You will cast all [b]our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
- Micah 7:19 Lit. their
Isaiah 63:15
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A Prayer of Penitence
15 (A)Look down from heaven,
And see (B)from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning (C)of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?
Psalm 103:13
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13 (A)As a father pities his children,
So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
Hosea 14:4
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4 “I will heal their (A)backsliding,
I will (B)love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from him.
Lamentations 3:31-32
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31 (A)For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
Judges 10:16
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16 (A)So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord. And (B)His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.
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Philippians 1:8
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8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
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Luke 15:24
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24 (A)for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
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Hosea 11:8-9
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8 “How(A) can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like (B)Admah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim?
My heart [a]churns within Me;
My sympathy is stirred.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim.
(C)For I am God, and not man,
The Holy One in your midst;
And I will not [b]come with terror.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:8 Lit. turns over
- Hosea 11:9 Or enter a city
Jeremiah 48:36
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36 Therefore (A)My heart shall wail like flutes for Moab,
And like flutes My heart shall wail
For the men of Kir Heres.
Therefore (B)the riches they have acquired have perished.
Isaiah 16:11
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Footnotes
- Isaiah 16:11 Lit. belly
- Isaiah 16:11 Kir Hareseth, v. 7
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