Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 31:15-17
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The LORD says, "A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; they are gone, and she refuses to be comforted.
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Stop your crying and wipe away your tears. All that you have done for your children will not go unrewarded; they will return from the enemy's land.
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There is hope for your future; your children will come back home. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Romans 11:11-17
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I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them.
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The sin of the Jews brought rich blessings to the world, and their spiritual poverty brought rich blessings to the Gentiles. Then, how much greater the blessings will be when the complete number of Jews is included!
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I am speaking now to you Gentiles: As long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I will take pride in my work.
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Perhaps I can make the people of my own race jealous, and so be able to save some of them.
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For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!
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If the first piece of bread is given to God, then the whole loaf is his also; and if the roots of a tree are offered to God, the branches are his also.
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Some of the branches of the cultivated olive tree have been broken off, and a branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to it. You Gentiles are like that wild olive tree, and now you share the strong spiritual life of the Jews.
Romans 11:24-17
Galatians 3:29
If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.
Galatians 4:26-29
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But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.
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For the scripture says, "Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her."
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Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
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At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.
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Isaiah 3:26
The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.
Isaiah 51:17-20
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Jerusalem, wake up! Rouse yourself and get up! You have drunk the cup of punishment that the LORD in his anger gave you to drink; you drank it down, and it made you stagger.
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There is no one to lead you, no one among your people to take you by the hand.
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A double disaster has fallen on you: your land has been devastated by war, and your people have starved. There is no one to show you sympathy.
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At the corner of every street your people collapse from weakness; they are like deer caught in a hunter's net. They have felt the force of God's anger.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself free, Jerusalem! Rise from the dust and sit on your throne! Undo the chains that bind you, captive people of Zion!
Isaiah 54:3-8
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You will extend your boundaries on all sides; your people will get back the land that the other nations now occupy. Cities now deserted will be filled with people.
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Do not be afraid---you will not be disgraced again; you will not be humiliated. You will forget your unfaithfulness as a young wife, and your desperate loneliness as a widow.
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Your Creator will be like a husband to you--- the LORD Almighty is his name. The holy God of Israel will save you--- he is the ruler of all the world.
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Israel, you are like a young wife, deserted by her husband and deeply distressed. But the LORD calls you back to him and says:
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"For one brief moment I left you; with deep love I will take you back.
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I turned away angry for only a moment, but I will show you my love forever." So says the LORD who saves you.
Isaiah 60:15
"You will no longer be forsaken and hated, A city deserted and desolate. I will make you great and beautiful, A place of joy forever and ever.
Isaiah 62:4
No longer will you be called "Forsaken," Or your land be called "The Deserted Wife." Your new name will be "God Is Pleased with Her." Your land will be called "Happily Married," Because the LORD is pleased with you And will be like a husband to your land.
Isaiah 64:10
Your sacred cities are like a desert; Jerusalem is a deserted ruin,
Lamentations 1:1-3
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How lonely lies Jerusalem, once so full of people! Once honored by the world, she is now like a widow; The noblest of cities has fallen into slavery.
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All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.
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Judah's people are helpless slaves, forced away from home. They live in other lands, with no place to call their own--- Surrounded by enemies, with no way to escape.
Matthew 24:29
"Soon after the trouble of those days, the sun will grow dark, the moon will no longer shine, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers in space will be driven from their courses.
Matthew 24:30
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky; and all the peoples of earth will weep as they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Luke 21:24
Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.
Romans 11:26-31
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And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture says, "The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob.
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I will make this covenant with them when I take away their sins."
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Because they reject the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for the sake of you Gentiles. But because of God's choice, they are his friends because of their ancestors.
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For God does not change his mind about whom he chooses and blesses.
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As for you Gentiles, you disobeyed God in the past; but now you have received God's mercy because the Jews were disobedient.
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In the same way, because of the mercy that you have received, the Jews now disobey God, in order that they also may now receive God's mercy.