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Meet God in Jeremiah 31:20

“Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.”

Jeremiah 31:20 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Jeremiah 31:20, and Living Bread opens it right there.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our Go…
  • Micah 7:18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for …
  • Psalms 103:13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
  • Lamentations 3:31For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
  • Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels…
  • Judges 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
  • Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
  • Luke 15:24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
  • Hosea 11:8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is tur…
  • Jeremiah 48:36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath g…
  • Isaiah 16:11Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
  • Philippians 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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