Jeremiah 31:18 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁸ I have, heard, Ephraim, bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me, and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return, that I may, return, For, thou, art Yahweh my God.

¹⁷ Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;

²⁷ He sang before men, and said, I sinned, and, uprightness, I perverted, yet he requited me not; ²⁸ He hath ransomed my soul from passing away into the pit,––and, my life, in the light, shall have vision.

⁹ Do not ye become like a horse, like a mule, without discernment,––With the bit and bridle of his mouth, [hast thou] to restrain him,––He will not come near unto thee.

⁸ From all my transgressions, rescue thou me,––The reproach of the base, oh do not make me! ⁹ I am dumb, I cannot open my mouth, for, thou, hast done it.

³ O God, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.

⁷ O God of hosts, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.

¹⁹ O Yahweh, God of hosts! bring us back, Light up thy face, That we may be saved.

⁴ Restore us, O God of our salvation, And take away thy vexation towards us.

¹² How happy the man whom thou correctest, O Yah! And whom, out of thy law, thou instructest!

¹⁹ That he looked down, out of his holy height, Yahweh, from the heavens unto the earth, directed his gaze; –– ²⁰ To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free, them who were appointed to death.

⁷⁵ I know, O Yahweh, that righteous are thy regulations, and, in faithfulness, didst thou afflict me.

¹¹ The, chastening of Yahweh, my son, do not reject, nor loathe his rebuke;

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of dullards.

¹ He that being often reproved stiffeneth his neck, suddenly shall be hurt, and there be no healing.

⁵ Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again, turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint:

¹³ Yet, the people, have not turned unto him that smote them,––And, Yahweh of hosts, have they not sought.

²⁰ Thy sons, have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets, like a gazelle in a net,––Who, indeed, are full of, The indignation of Yahweh, The rebuke of thy God.

⁷ Hard pressed––yet, he, humbled himself, Nor opened his mouth––As, a lamb, to the slaughter, is led, And, as a sheep, before her shearers, is dumb––Nor opened his mouth.

¹⁵ For, thus, saith he that is high, and lifted up––Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and, To revive the heart of them who are crushed; –– ¹⁶ For, not age–abidingly, will I contend, Nor perpetually, will I be wroth,––For, spirit, before me, would faint, Even, the breathing souls, which, I, had made.
¹⁷ Because of his iniquitous gain, was I wroth––and smote him, Hiding myself that I might be wroth,––But he went on, turning aside in the way of his own heart. ¹⁸ His ways, have I beheld, That I might heal him,––And guide him, And restore consolations to him, and to his mourners:

¹⁶ For, thou, art our father, Though, Abraham, knew us not, And, Israel, could not acknowledge us,––Thou, O Yahweh, art our father, Our Redeemer from the Age–past time, is thy name.

³⁰ In vain, have I smitten your children, Correction, have they not accepted,––Your sword hath devoured, your prophets, as a lion that destroyeth.

²¹ A voice, on the bare heights, is heard, The weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel,––Because they have perverted their way, Have forgotten, Yahweh their God. ²² Return, ye apostate sons, I will heal your apostasies! Behold us! we have come unto thee, For, thou, art Yahweh our God.

²⁵ We must lie down in our shame, And our reproach, be our covering, For, against Yahweh our God, have we sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth, even until this day,––Neither have we hearkened, unto the voice of Yahweh our God.

³ O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them––They have refused to receive correction,––They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, They have refused to return.

¹⁴ Heal thou me, O Yahweh, that I may be healed, Save me, that I may be saved,––For, my praise, thou art!

⁶ For it is, a day the watchmen have proclaimed throughout the hill country of Ephraim,––Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion, unto Yahweh our God.

⁹ With weeping, shall they come in, And, with supplications, will I lead them, I will bring them unto rivers of waters, By a smooth way, wherein they shall not stumble,––For I have become, to Israel, a father, And, as for Ephraim, my firstborn, is he!

⁴ In those days, and at that time, Declareth Yahweh, Shall the sons of Israel come in, They, and the sons of Judah, together: Weeping as they travel, so shall they journey on, And, Yahweh their God, shall they seek; ⁵ To Zion, shall they ask the way, Hitherward, their faces, Come and let us join ourselves unto Yahweh, In a covenant age–abiding, which shall not be forgotten.

²⁷ Good it is for a man, that he should bear the yoke in his youth. ²⁸ Let him sit alone, and keep silence, because he took it upon himself: ²⁹ Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope! ³⁰ Let him give, to him that smiteth him, his cheek, let him be sated with reproach.

²¹ Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;

¹⁶ For, as a heifer that is stubborn, hath Israel, been stubborn,––Now, can Yahweh, turn them out to pasture, like a young ram in a wide place?

¹² But, I, was like a moth, to Ephraim,––and like rotten wood to the house of Judah. ¹³ When Ephraim, saw, his injury, and Judah his wound, then went Ephraim unto Assyria, and [Judah] sent unto a hostile king,––yet, he, cannot heal you, nor will the wound, remove from you.

¹⁵ I will depart, will return unto my place! till what time they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my face,––In their trouble, will they make for me diligent search.

¹¹ But, Ephraim, shall be a heifer broken in, loving to tread out corn, when, I, have passed over upon her fair neck,––I will drive Ephraim, Judah, shall plow, Jacob, shall harrow to him.

⁸ How can I give thee up, Ephraim? abandon thee Israel? How can I make thee as Admah? set thee as Zeboim? Mine own heart, turneth against me, at once, are kindled my compassions. ⁹ I cannot execute the glow of mine anger, I cannot turn to destroy Ephraim,––for, GOD, am, I, and not man, When thou drawest near, [I am] a Holy One, though I do not enter a city.

⁴ I will heal their apostacy, I will love them freely,––for mine anger, hath turned, from them. ⁵ I will become as the dew unto Israel, he shall break forth as the lily,––and he shall strike his roots as Lebanon: ⁶ His branches, shall spread, that, like an olive–tree, may be his fresh beauty,––and his fragrance, like Lebanon. ⁷ They who dwell in his shade shall again show life like the corn, and break forth as the vine,––and, the remembrance of him, shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
⁸ Ephraim [saith]––What to me any more are idols? I, have answered, and have closely observed him, I, am like a fir–tree that is green, From me, is thy fruit found.

² She hath hearkened to no voice, accepted no correction; in Yahweh, hath not trusted, to her God, hath not drawn near:

⁶ And he shall bring back the heart of the fathers unto the children, and the heart of the children unto their fathers,––lest I come, and smite the land, with utter destruction.

¹⁷ And, he, shall go before him, in the spirit and power of Elijah,––To turn the hearts of fathers unto children, and the unyielding, into the prudence of the righteous, and to prepare, for the Lord, a people made ready.

²⁰ Now, while yet he was holding afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and, running, fell upon his neck, and tenderly kissed him.

²⁶ Unto you first, God––having raised up his Servant––hath sent him forth, ready to bless you, when ye are turning away, each one, from your wickednesses.

¹³ For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

⁵ And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, with you as with sons, doth reason:––My son! be not slighting the discipline of the Lord, neither be fainting, when by him, thou art reproved;

¹⁶ Be not deceived, my brethren beloved:–– ¹⁷ Every good giving, and every perfect gift, is, from above, coming down from the Father of lights––with whom is no alternation, nor shadow cast, by turning: ¹⁸ Because he was so minded, he hath brought us forth with a word of truth, to the end we should be a sort of firstfruit of his creatures

¹⁹ I, as many as I tenderly love, I convict and put under discipline: be zealous, therefore, and repent.