14 if my people who are called by my name (A)humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

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(A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (B)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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40 Let us test and examine our ways,
    (A)and return to the Lord!
41 (B)Let us lift up our hearts and hands
    to God in heaven:

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(A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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37 yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ 38 if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 39 then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

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13 Whoever (A)conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
    but he who (B)confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

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(A)Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (B)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.

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12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God (A)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and (B)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. (C)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

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27 (A)then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way[a] in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 6:27 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 1 Kings 8:36); Hebrew toward the good way

40 “But if (A)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (B)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (C)uncircumcised heart is (D)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

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11 Say to them, (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, (B)I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; (C)turn back, turn back from your evil ways, (D)for why will you die, O house of Israel?

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27 Again, (A)when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life. 28 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

30 “Therefore (B)I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. (C)Repent and turn from all your transgressions, (D)lest iniquity be your ruin.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:30 Or lest iniquity be your stumbling block

22 Is there no (A)balm in Gilead?
    Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
    not been restored?

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19 (A)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
    like those who are not called by your name.

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20 (A)“And (B)a Redeemer will come to Zion,
    to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.

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Repentance and Forgiveness

30 (A)“And (B)when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and (C)you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and (D)return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God (E)will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will (F)gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. (G)If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. (H)And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. And (I)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, (J)so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

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30 (A)then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, (B)for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,

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We would have healed Babylon,
    but she was not healed.
(A)Forsake her, and (B)let us go
    each to his own country,
for (C)her judgment has reached up to heaven
    and has been lifted up even to the skies.

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19 (A)I did not speak in secret,
    in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
    (B)‘Seek me in vain.’[a]
I the Lord speak (C)the truth;
    I declare what is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness

11 And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man (A)of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,

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18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and (A)his prayer to his God, and the words of (B)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the (C)Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 19 And his prayer, and how (D)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites (E)on which he built high places and set up the (F)Asherim and the images, before (G)he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:19 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai

You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;
    (A)repair its breaches, for it totters.

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