Jeremiah 3:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jeremiah, shout towards the north: Israel, I am your LORD— come back to me! You were unfaithful and made me furious, but I am merciful, and so I will forgive you.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling. But you did the wrong thing, and now sin is waiting to attack you like a lion. Sin wants to destroy you, but don't let it!

2 Kings 15:29

During Pekah's rule, King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria marched into Israel. He captured the territories of Gilead and Galilee, including the towns of Ijon, Abel-Bethmaacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, as well as the entire territory of Naphtali. Then he took Israelites from those regions to Assyria as prisoners.

2 Kings 17:23

until the LORD got rid of them, just as he had warned his servants the prophets. That's why the people of Israel were taken away as prisoners to Assyria, and that's where they remained.

2 Kings 17:6

before capturing it in the ninth year of Hoshea's rule. The Assyrian king took the Israelites away to Assyria as prisoners. He forced some of them to live in the town of Halah, others to live near the River Habor in the territory of Gozan, and still others to live in towns where the Median people lived.

2 Kings 18:1

Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah in the third year of Hoshea's rule in Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:10

So I have decided to renew our agreement with the LORD God of Israel. Perhaps then he will stop being so angry with us.

2 Chronicles 30:9

and the enemies who have captured your families will show pity and send them back home. The LORD God is kind and merciful, and if you turn back to him, he will no longer turn his back on you.

Psalm 103:17

The LORD is always kind to those who worship him, and he keeps his promises to their descendants

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is merciful! He is kind and patient, and his love never fails.

Psalm 103:9

The LORD won't always be angry and point out our sins;

Psalm 145:8

You are merciful, LORD! You are kind and patient and always loving.

Psalm 79:5

Our LORD, will you keep on being angry? Will your angry feelings keep flaming up like fire?

Psalm 86:15

But you, the Lord God, are kind and merciful. You don't easily get angry, and your love can always be trusted.

Psalm 86:5

You willingly forgive, and your love is always there for those who pray to you.

Proverbs 28:13

If you don't confess your sins, you will be a failure. But God will be merciful if you confess your sins and give them up.

Isaiah 31:6

People of Israel, come back! You have completely turned from the LORD.

Isaiah 44:22

Turn back to me! I have rescued you and swept away your sins as though they were clouds.

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the LORD told me to say to everyone in the streets of Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah: Pay attention to the commands in my agreement with you.

Jeremiah 12:15

But later, I will have pity on these nations and bring them back to their own lands.

Jeremiah 23:8

Instead, you will call me the Living God who rescued you from the land in the north and from all the other countries where I had forced you to go. And you will once again live in your own land.

Jeremiah 3:1

The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?

Jeremiah 3:14

You are unfaithful children, but you belong to me. Come home! I'll take one or two of you from each town and clan and bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:18

Then, in countries to the north, you people of Judah and Israel will be reunited, and you will return to the land I gave your ancestors.

Jeremiah 3:22

I will tell them, “Come back, and I will cure you of your unfaithfulness.” They will answer, “We will come back, because you are the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 3:5

you beg me to stop being angry, but you won't stop sinning.

Jeremiah 3:7

I knew that the kingdom of Israel had been unfaithful and committed many sins, yet I still hoped she might come back to me. But she didn't, so I divorced her and sent her away. Her sister, the kingdom of Judah, saw what happened, but she wasn't worried in the least, and I watched her become unfaithful like her sister.

Jeremiah 31:20

People of Israel, you are my own dear children. Don't I love you best of all? Though I often make threats, I want you to be near me, so I will have mercy on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 31:21

With rock piles and signposts, mark the way home, my dear people. It is the same road by which you left.

Jeremiah 31:8

I, the LORD, will bring my people back from Babylonia and everywhere else on earth. The blind and the lame will be there. Expectant mothers and women about to give birth will come and be part of that great crowd.

Jeremiah 33:26

In the same way, I will never reject the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or break my promise that they will always have a descendant of David as their king. I will be kind to my people Israel, and they will be successful again.

Jeremiah 4:1

The LORD said: Israel, if you really want to come back to me, get rid of those disgusting idols.

Lamentations 3:22

The LORD's kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed.

Ezekiel 11:17

And some day, I will gather you from the nations where you are scattered and let you live in Israel again.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.

Ezekiel 39:25

Now I will show mercy to the people of Israel and bring them back from the nations where they are living. They are Jacob's descendants, so I will bless them and show that I am holy.

Hosea 6:1

Let's return to the LORD. He has torn us to shreds, but he will bandage our wounds and make us well.

Leviticus 26:40

Then suppose you realize that I turned against you and brought you to the land of your enemies because both you and your ancestors had stubbornly sinned against me. If you humbly confess what you have done and start living right,

Zechariah 1:4

Don't be stubborn like your ancestors. They were warned by the earlier prophets to give up their evil and turn back to me, but they paid no attention.

Deuteronomy 30:2

return to him with all your heart and soul and start obeying the commands I have given to you today.