Jeremiah 3:19

New American Bible - revised edition

I thought: How I would like to make you my children! So I gave you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage among the nations! You would call me, “My Father,” I thought, and you would never turn away from me.

Cross References

Psalm 106:24

Next they despised the beautiful land; they did not believe the promise.

Psalm 16:6

Pleasant places were measured out for me; fair to me indeed is my inheritance.

Psalm 89:26

I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers.

Proverbs 3:35

The wise will possess glory, but fools will bear shame.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father. Were Abraham not to know us, nor Israel to acknowledge us, You, Lord, are our father, our redeemer you are named from of old.

Isaiah 64:8

Do not be so very angry, Lord, do not remember our crimes forever; look upon us, who are all your people!

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have ravaged my vineyard, have trampled down my heritage; My delightful portion they have turned into a desert waste.

Jeremiah 3:17

At that time they will call Jerusalem “the Lord’s throne.” All nations will gather together there to honor the name of the Lord at Jerusalem, and they will no longer stubbornly follow their wicked heart.

Jeremiah 3:4

Even now do you not call me, “My father, you are the bridegroom of my youth?

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 31:9

With weeping they shall come, but with compassion I will guide them; I will lead them to streams of water, on a level road, without stumbling. For I am a father to Israel, Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 33:9

Then this city shall become joy for me, a name of praise and pride, before all the nations of the earth, as they hear of all the good I am doing for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the prosperity I give it.

Jeremiah 5:7

Why should I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, they swear by gods that are no gods. I fed them, but they commit adultery; to the prostitute’s house they throng.

Ezekiel 20:6

That day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to the land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, a jewel among all lands.

Daniel 11:16

The invader shall do as he wills, with no one to withstand him. He shall stop in the glorious land, and it shall all be in his power.

Daniel 11:41

He shall enter the glorious land and many shall fall, except Edom, Moab, and the chief part of Ammon, which shall escape his power.

Daniel 11:45

He shall pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the sea and the glorious holy mountain, but he shall come to his end with none to help him.

Daniel 8:9

Out of one of them came a little horn which grew and grew toward the south, the east, and the glorious land.

Hosea 11:8

How could I give you up, Ephraim, or deliver you up, Israel? How could I treat you as Admah, or make you like Zeboiim? My heart is overwhelmed, my pity is stirred.

Galatians 3:26

For through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:5

he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will,

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.

Hebrews 10:39

We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.

1 Peter 1:17

Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,