Luke 15:20

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

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.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

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.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

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.

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

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

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

He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

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.

Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

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.

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

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

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

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.