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Psalms 103:13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
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Isaiah 44:21
Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; Israel, you will never be forgotten by me.
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Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
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Jeremiah 31:20
Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, my inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Matthew 7:11
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
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Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
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2 Kings 11 1-2 Kings 11 2
When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram’s daughter and Ahaziah’s sister, secretly rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from among the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and the one who nursed him in a bedroom. So he was hidden from Athaliah and was not killed.
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Malachi 3:17
“ They will be mine,” says the LORD of Armies,“ my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.
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2 Kings 6 28-2 Kings 6 29
Then the king asked her,“ What’s the matter?” She said,“ This woman said to me,‘ Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day,‘ Give up your son, and we will eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”
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1 Kings 3 26-1 Kings 3 27
The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion for her son.“ My lord, give her the living baby,” she said,“ but please don’t have him killed!” But the other one said,“ He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”The king responded,“ Give the living baby to the first woman, and don’t kill him. She is his mother.”
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Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness.
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.
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Romans 11:28-29
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
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Romans 1:31
senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.
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Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.