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Ezra 9:15
LORD God of Israel, you are righteous, for we survive as a remnant today. Here we are before you with our guilt, though no one can stand in your presence because of this.
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Isaiah 38:14
I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.
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Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
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Isaiah 37:31
The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
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Ezekiel 6:8-9
“ Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable actions of every kind.
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Jeremiah 44:28
Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to stay there for a while, will know whose word stands, mine or theirs!
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Ezekiel 36:31
“‘ You will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and detestable practices.
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Jeremiah 31:9
They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Jeremiah 44:14
Then the remnant of Judah— those going to live for a while there in the land of Egypt— will have no fugitive or survivor to return to the land of Judah where they are longing to return to stay, for they will not return except for a few fugitives.”
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Jeremiah 31:18-19
I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,“ You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, LORD, are my God.After my return, I felt regret; After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
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Proverbs 5:11-14
At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,and you will say,“ How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my instructors.I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”
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Zechariah 12:10-14
“ Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.The land will mourn, every family by itself: the family of David’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Nathan’s house by itself and their women by themselves;the family of Levi’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself and their women by themselves;all the remaining families, every family by itself, and their women by themselves.
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Isaiah 1:9
If the LORD of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
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Jeremiah 50:4-5
In those days and at that time— this is the LORD’s declaration— the Israelites and Judeans will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.They will ask about Zion, turning their faces to this road. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in a permanent covenant that will never be forgotten.