Jeremiah 31:18

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.

He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

“ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.

Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

He went out, and wept bitterly.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;