Gen 44:34, 1Ki 3:26, Est 8:6, Isa 49:15, Zec 12:10, Luk 15:20 | ESV | STEP | For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father .

Genesis 44:34

34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

1 Kings 3:26

26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because ^aher 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.”

Esther 8:6

6 For how can I bear ^bto see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Isaiah 49:15

15 ^c“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.

Zechariah 12:10

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And ^dI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^epleas for mercy, so that, ^fwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^gthey shall mourn for him, ^has one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Luke 15:20

20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ⁱran and ^jembraced him and ^kkissed him.