Jeremiah 31:19

New Century Version

Lord, after I wandered away from you, I changed my heart and life. After I understood, I beat my breast with sorrow. I was ashamed and disgraced, because I suffered for the foolish things I did when I was young.’

Cross References

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “My God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to you, my God, because our sins are so many. They are higher than our heads. Our guilt even reaches up to the sky.

Job 13:26

You write down cruel things against me and make me suffer for my boyhood sins.

Job 20:11

They had the strength of their youth in their bones, but it will lie with them in the dust of death.

Psalm 119:67

Before I suffered, I did wrong, but now I obey your word.

Psalm 25:7

Do not remember the sins and wrong things I did when I was young. But remember to love me always because you are good, Lord.

Isaiah 54:4

“Don’t be afraid, because you will not be ashamed. Don’t be embarrassed, because you will not be disgraced. You will forget the shame you felt earlier; you will not remember the shame you felt when you lost your husband.

Jeremiah 22:21

Judah, when you were successful, I warned you, but you said, ‘I won’t listen.’ You have acted like this since you were young; you have not obeyed me.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us like a blanket. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors. From our youth until now, we have not obeyed the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 32:30

From their youth, the people of Israel and Judah have done only the things I said were wrong. They have made me angry by worshiping idols made with their own hands,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:12

Shout and yell, human, because the sword is meant for my people, for all the rulers of Israel. They will be killed by the sword, along with my people. So beat your chest in sadness.

Ezekiel 21:17

I will also clap my hands and use up my anger. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 23:3

While they were young, they went to Egypt and became prostitutes. They let men touch and hold their breasts.

Ezekiel 36:26

Also, I will teach you to respect me completely, and I will put a new way of thinking inside you. I will take out the stubborn hearts of stone from your bodies, and I will give you obedient hearts of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you will remember your evil ways and actions that were not good, and you will hate yourselves because of your sins and your terrible acts that I hate.

Ezekiel 6:9

Then those who have escaped will remember me, as they live among the nations where they have been taken as captives. They will remember how I was hurt because they were unfaithful to me and turned away from me and desired to worship their idols. They will hate themselves because of the evil things they did that I hate.

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour out on David’s family and the people in Jerusalem a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look at me, the one they have stabbed, and they will cry like someone crying over the death of an only child. They will be as sad as someone who has lost a firstborn son.

Luke 15:30

But your other son, who wasted all your money on prostitutes, comes home, and you kill the fat calf for him!’

Luke 18:13

“The tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even look up to heaven. But he beat on his chest because he was so sad. He said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

Romans 6:21

You did evil things, and now you are ashamed of them. Those things only bring death.

Deuteronomy 30:2

Then you and your children will return to the Lord your God, and you will obey him with your whole being in everything I am commanding you today.

2 Timothy 2:25

The Lord’s servant must gently teach those who disagree. Then maybe God will let them change their minds so they can accept the truth.