Jeremiah 31:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed, I heard Ephraim rocking in grief: You chastised me, and I was chastised; I was like an untamed calf. Bring me back, let me come back, for you are the Lord, my God.

Cross References

Job 5:17

Happy the one whom God reproves! The Almighty’s discipline do not reject.

Psalm 118:18

The Lord chastised me harshly, but did not hand me over to death.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I hold to your promise.

Psalm 119:75

I know, Lord, that your judgments are righteous; though you afflict me, you are faithful.

Psalm 31:15

But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.”

Psalm 32:9

Do not be like a horse or mule, without understanding; with bit and bridle their temper is curbed, else they will not come to you.

Psalm 80:19

Then we will not withdraw from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.

Psalm 80:3

upon Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Stir up your power, and come to save us.

Psalm 80:7

You have left us to be fought over by our neighbors; our enemies deride us.

Psalm 85:4

You withdrew all your wrath, turned back from your burning anger.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed the one whom you guide, Lord, whom you teach by your instruction,

Proverbs 26:3

The whip for the horse, the bridle for the ass, and the rod for the back of fools.

Proverbs 29:1

Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof in an instant will be shattered beyond cure.

Proverbs 3:11

The discipline of the Lord, my son, do not spurn; do not disdain his reproof;

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children lie helpless at every street corner like antelopes in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 53:7

Though harshly treated, he submitted and did not open his mouth; Like a lamb led to slaughter or a sheep silent before shearers, he did not open his mouth.

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 9:13

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, Lord, that I may be healed; save me, that I may be saved, for you are my praise.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord, our God, We and our ancestors, from our youth to this day; we did not listen to the voice of the Lord, our God.”

Jeremiah 31:6

Yes, a day will come when the watchmen call out on Mount Ephraim: “Come, let us go up to Zion, to the Lord, our God.”

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 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Lamentations 5:21

Bring us back to you, Lord, that we may return: renew our days as of old.

Ezekiel 20:43

There you shall remember your ways, all the deeds by which you defiled yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves because of all the evil you did.

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the law of Moses, this evil has come upon us. We did not appease the Lord, our God, by turning back from our wickedness and acting according to your truth,

Hosea 10:11

Ephraim was a trained heifer, that loved to thresh; I myself laid a yoke upon her beautiful neck; I will make Ephraim break ground, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself:

Hosea 4:16

For like a stubborn cow, Israel is stubborn; Will the Lord now pasture them, like lambs in a broad meadow?

Hosea 5:15

I will go back to my place until they make reparation and seek my presence. In their affliction, they shall look for me.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

Zephaniah 3:2

It listens to no voice, accepts no correction; In the Lord it has not trusted, nor drawn near to its God.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who fear the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened attentively; A record book was written before him of those who fear the Lord and esteem his name.

Numbers 2:18

The divisional camp of Ephraim shall be on the west side, by companies. The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama, son of Ammihud,

Luke 1:17

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers toward children and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to prepare a people fit for the Lord.”

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.

Acts 3:26

For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

Philippians 2:13

For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.

Hebrews 12:5

You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him;

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.