2 Chronicles 7:14
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14 if My people who are (A)called by My name will (B)humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, (C)then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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James 4:9-10
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9 (A)Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (B)Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
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Lamentations 3:40-41
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40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
41 (A)Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)Seek the Lord while He may be (B)found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 (C)Let the [a]wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man (D)his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
(E)And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
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- Isaiah 55:7 Lit. man of iniquity
Proverbs 28:13
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13 (A)He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
2 Chronicles 6:37-39
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37 yet when they [a]come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness’; 38 and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the (A)city which You have chosen, and toward the temple which I have built for Your name: 39 then hear from heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.
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- 2 Chronicles 6:37 Lit. bring back to their hearts
Deuteronomy 4:29-30
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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in [a]distress, and all these things come upon you in the (B)latter days, when you (C)turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice
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- Deuteronomy 4:30 tribulation
Jeremiah 33:6
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6 Behold, (A)I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
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2 Chronicles 33:12-13
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12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and (A)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He (B)received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh (C)knew that the Lord was God.
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Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, (A)‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked (B)turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For (C)why should you die, O house of Israel?’
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2 Chronicles 6:27
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27 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
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Leviticus 26:40-41
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40 ‘But (A)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their (B)uncircumcised hearts are (C)humbled, and they (D)accept their guilt—
Ezekiel 18:27-30
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27 Again, (A)when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. 28 Because he (B)considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29 (C)Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?
30 (D)“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,” says the Lord God. (E)“Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.
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Jeremiah 8:22
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22 Is there no (A)balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
Isaiah 63:19
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19 We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your name.
Deuteronomy 30:1-6
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The Blessing of Returning to God
30 “Now (A)it shall come to pass, when (B)all these things come upon you, the blessing and the (C)curse which I have set before you, and (D)you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you (E)return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 (F)that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and (G)gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 (H)If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And (I)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
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- Deuteronomy 30:1 Lit. cause them to return to your heart
Isaiah 59:20
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20 “The(A) Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
2 Chronicles 6:30
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30 then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone (A)know the (B)hearts of the sons of men),
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Isaiah 45:19
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19 I have not spoken in (A)secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘Seek Me [a]in vain’;
(B)I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.
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- Isaiah 45:19 Or in a waste place
Acts 9:11
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11 So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul (A)of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying.
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Jeremiah 51:9
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9 We would have healed Babylon,
But she is not healed.
Forsake her, and (A)let us go everyone to his own country;
(B)For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.
2 Chronicles 33:18-19
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Death of Manasseh(A)
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of (B)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, indeed they are written in the [a]book of the kings of Israel. 19 Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built [b]high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of [c]Hozai.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:18 Lit. words
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 LXX the seers
Psalm 60:2
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2 You have made the earth tremble;
You have broken it;
(A)Heal its breaches, for it is shaking.
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