Hosea 11:8
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
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Hosea 11:8
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
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Genesis 6:7
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
Jeremiah 15:6
You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.
Jeremiah 18:7
Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.
Jeremiah 42:10
If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.
Jeremiah 44:4
And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.
Jonah 3:9
Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.
1 Timothy 2:4
Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
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Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
Genesis 19:23
The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.
Genesis 19:29
So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
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Deuteronomy 29:22
And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;
Psalms 11:6
On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
Lamentations 4:6
For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.
Matthew 11:24
But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.
Luke 17:30
So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
Hebrews 3:10
So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;
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Proverbs 4:9
She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.
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Song of Solomon 6:12
Before I was conscious of it, ...
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Psalms 86:5
You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.
Psalms 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.
Psalms 103:13
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Psalms 145:8
The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.
Lamentations 3:22
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
John 11:35
And Jesus himself was weeping.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 4:15
For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.
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Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
Hosea 3:2
So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;
Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.
Hosea 3:5
And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
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Joel 2:18
Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.
Zechariah 1:14
And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.
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Luke 24:32
And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?
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James 5:16
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
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