Jeremiah 31:9

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:10

Then David blessed the Lord in the sight of the whole assembly. David said: “Blessed are you, Lord, God of Israel our father, from eternity to eternity.

Psalm 107:7

Guided them by a direct path so they reached a city to live in.

Psalm 23:2

In green pastures he makes me lie down; to still waters he leads me;

Psalm 89:27

He shall cry to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation!’

Exodus 4:22

So you will say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 43:20

Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, For I put water in the wilderness and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink,

Isaiah 45:11

Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Do you question me about my children, tell me how to treat the work of my hands?

Isaiah 57:14

And I say: Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle from my people’s way.

Isaiah 63:13

Who guided them through the depths, like horses in open country?

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 3:19

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.

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 50:4

In those days and at that time—oracle of the Lord— Israelite and Judahite shall come together, Weeping as they come, to seek the Lord, their God;

Hosea 12:4

In the womb he supplanted his brother, and in his vigor he contended with a divine being;

Hosea 3:5

Afterward the Israelites will turn back and seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king; They will come trembling to the Lord and to his bounty, in the last days.

Zechariah 12:10

I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of mercy and supplication, so that when they look on him whom they have thrust through, they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and they will grieve for him as one grieves over a firstborn. Catalogue of Mourners.

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why, then, do we break faith with each other, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?

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,

Matthew 3:3

It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said: “A voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.’”

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Matthew 6:9

“This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh.

Romans 8:26

In the same way, the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

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.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?

Hebrews 12:13

Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed. Penalties of Disobedience.

Hebrews 12:23

and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,

Hebrews 5:7

In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”