Jeremiah 31:18

Israel And Judah Will Be Delivered From Their Distress

¹⁷ There is hope for your future—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
and your children will return to their own territory.
¹⁸ I have heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.
¹⁹ After I returned, I repented;
After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief.
I was ashamed and humiliated
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”

Let Us

People of Israel

Ephraim

Israel

Jehovah

Psalm 80:3

Restore us, God;
look on us with favor,
and we will be saved.

Job 5:17

See how happy the man is God corrects;
so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.
I will lead them to wadis filled with water
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Lamentations 5:21

Lord, restore us to Yourself, so we may return;
renew our days as in former times,

Psalm 80:7

Restore us, God of Hosts;
look on us with favor, and we will be saved.

Psalm 80:19

Restore us, Yahweh, the God of Hosts;
look on us with favor, and we will be saved.

Psalm 94:12

Lord, happy is the man You discipline
and teach from Your law

Jeremiah 3:21-22

A sound is heard on the barren heights,
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
for they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;
save me, and I will be saved,
for You are my praise.

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

Acts 3:26

God raised up His Servant and sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be committed and repent.

Job 33:27-28

He will look at men and say,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.

Psalm 32:9

Do not be like a horse or mule,
without understanding,
that must be controlled with bit and bridle
or else it will not come near you.

Psalm 39:8-9

Deliver me from all my transgressions;
do not make me the taunt of fools.

Psalm 85:4

Return to us, God of our salvation,
and abandon Your displeasure with us.

Psalm 102:19-20

He looked down from His holy heights—
the Lord gazed out from heaven to earth—

Psalm 119:75

I know, Lord, that Your judgments are just
and that You have afflicted me fairly.

Proverbs 3:11

Do not despise the Lord’s instruction, my son,
and do not loathe His discipline;

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
and a rod for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 29:1

One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you want more beatings?
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.

Isaiah 9:13

The people did not turn to Him who struck them;
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
He did not open His mouth.

Isaiah 57:15-18

For the High and Exalted One
who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.

Isaiah 63:16

Yet You are our Father,
even though Abraham does not know us
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father;
from ancient times,
Your name is our Redeemer.

Jeremiah 2:30

I have struck down your children in vain;
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame;
let our disgrace cover us.
We have sinned against the Lord our God,
both we and our fathers,
from the time of our youth even to this day.
We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, don’t Your eyes look for faithfulness?
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.

Jeremiah 31:6

For there will be a day when watchmen will call out
in the hill country of Ephraim,
“Get up, let’s go up to Zion,
to Yahweh our God!”

Jeremiah 50:4-5

In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.

Lamentations 3:27-30

It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is still young.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?

Hosea 5:12-13

So I am like rot to Ephraim
and like decay to the house of Judah.

Hosea 5:15-2

I will depart and return to My place
until they recognize their guilt and seek My face;
they will search for Me in their distress.

Hosea 10:11

Ephraim is a well-trained calf
that loves to thresh,
but I will place a yoke on her fine neck.
I will harness Ephraim;
Judah will plow;
Jacob will do the final plowing.

Hosea 11:8-9

How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
I have had a change of heart;
My compassion is stirred!

Hosea 14:4-8

I will heal their apostasy;
I will freely love them,
for My anger will have turned from him.

Zephaniah 3:2

She has not obeyed;
she has not accepted discipline.
She has not trusted in Yahweh;
she has not drawn near to her God.

Malachi 4:6

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Luke 1:17

And he will go before Him
in the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of fathers
to their children,
and the disobedient
to the understanding of the righteous,
to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

James 1:16-18

Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

Hebrews 12:5

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,