Jeremiah 3:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Go, proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, rebel Israel—oracle of the Lord— I will not remain angry with you; For I am merciful, oracle of the Lord, I will not keep my anger forever.

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:11

Answer them: As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?

Psalm 86:15

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in mercy and truth.

Jeremiah 33:26

then I will also reject the descendants of Jacob and of David my servant, no longer selecting from his descendants rulers for the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yes, I will restore their fortunes and show them mercy.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim not my favored son, the child in whom I delight? Even though I threaten him, I must still remember him! My heart stirs for him, I must show him compassion!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, rebellious children! I will heal your rebellions. “Here we are! We belong to you, for you are the Lord, our God.

Jeremiah 3:18

In those days the house of Judah will walk alongside the house of Israel; together they will come from the land of the north to the land which I gave your ancestors as a heritage.

Jeremiah 30:11

for I am with you—oracle of the Lord—to save you. I will bring to an end all the nations among whom I have scattered you; but you I will not bring to an end. I will chastise you as you deserve, I will not let you go unpunished.

Jeremiah 23:8

but rather, “As the Lord lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Israel up from the land of the north”—and from all the lands to which I banished them; they shall again live on their own soil.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return, Israel—oracle of the Lord— return to me. If you put your detestable things out of my sight, and do not stray,

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he keep his wrath forever, will he hold his grudge to the end?” This is what you say; yet you do all the evil you can. Judah and Israel.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in mercy.

Psalm 86:5

Lord, you are good and forgiving, most merciful to all who call on you.

2 Kings 18:1

In the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah, became king.

2 Kings 17:23

Finally, the Lord removed Israel from his presence, just as he had declared through all his servants, the prophets. Thus Israel went into exile from their native soil to Assyria until this very day. Foreigners Deported to Israel.

Deuteronomy 30:2

and return to the Lord, your God, obeying his voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your children, with your whole heart and your whole being,

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let us return to the Lord, For it is he who has torn, but he will heal us; he has struck down, but he will bind our wounds.

Ezekiel 39:25

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and take pity on the whole house of Israel; I am zealous for my holy name.

Jeremiah 31:8

Look! I will bring them back from the land of the north; I will gather them from the ends of the earth, the blind and the lame in their midst, Pregnant women, together with those in labor— an immense throng—they shall return.

Jeremiah 3:14

Return, rebellious children—oracle of the Lord— for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city, two from a clan, and bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I thought: After she has done all this, she will return to me. But she did not return. Then, even though that traitor her sister Judah, saw

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Isaiah 44:22

I have brushed away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like a mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Proverbs 28:13

Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord’s mercy is from age to age, toward those who fear him. His salvation is for the children’s children

Psalm 103:8

Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger, abounding in mercy.

Psalm 79:5

How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous anger keep burning like fire?

2 Chronicles 30:9

If you return to the Lord, your kinfolk and your children will find mercy with their captors and return to this land. The Lord, your God, is gracious and merciful and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”

2 Kings 17:6

In Hoshea’s ninth year, the king of Assyria took Samaria, deported the Israelites to Assyria, and settled them in Halah, and at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—deporting the inhabitants to Assyria.

Genesis 4:7

If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

Leviticus 26:40

They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,

Psalm 103:9

He will not always accuse, and nurses no lasting anger;

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the Lord said to me: Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and obey them.

Jeremiah 12:15

But after uprooting them, I will have compassion on them again and bring them back, each to their heritage, each to their land.

Lamentations 3:22

The Lord’s acts of mercy are not exhausted, his compassion is not spent;

Ezekiel 11:17

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the nations and collect you from the lands through which you were scattered, so I can give you the land of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now, I intend to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, that his burning anger may turn away from us.

Isaiah 31:6

Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted.

Jeremiah 31:21

Set up road markers, put up signposts; Turn your attention to the highway, the road you walked. Turn back, virgin Israel, turn back to these your cities.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your ancestors to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me—oracle of the Lord.—