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Psalms 103:13
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
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Isaiah 44:21
Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not 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
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.
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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 who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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2 Kings 11 1-2 Kings 11 2
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.
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Malachi 3:17
“ They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
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2 Kings 6 28-2 Kings 6 29
And the king asked her,“ What is your trouble?” She answered,“ This woman said to me,‘ Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her,‘ Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”
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1 Kings 3 26-1 Kings 3 27
Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son,“ Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said,“ He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”Then the king answered and said,“ Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”
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Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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Romans 11:28-29
As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
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Romans 1:31
foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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Leviticus 26:29
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.