Isaiah 49:21
21Then you will say in your heart:‘Who has borne me these?
aI was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”
Isaiah 54:1
The Eternal Covenant of Peace
1 b“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of cthe desolate one dwill be more
than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:24-25
24“But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 eLet us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For fwe have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”Jeremiah 31:19
19For after gI had turned away, I relented,and after I was instructed, hI struck my thigh;
iI was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Hosea 2:2-5
2 “Plead with your mother, plead—for jshe is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away kher whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3lest lI strip her naked
and make her as min the day she was born,
and nmake her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 oUpon her children also I will have no mercy,
pbecause they are children of whoredom.
5For qtheir mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For rshe said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who sgive me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
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