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,

¹⁵ “See, ^(A)I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^(A)blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

⁴⁷ yet ^(A)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 captors, saying, ^(B)‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ ^48 (C)if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you ^(D)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,

⁶⁴ “And the Lord ^(A)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^(B)there you shall serve other gods ^(C)of wood and stone, ^(D)which neither you nor your fathers have known.

^26 (A)“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ^27 (B)the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, ²⁸ and ^(C)the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, ^(D)to go after other gods that you have not known.

^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.

¹⁷ “But ^(A)when he ^(B)came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

²⁸ Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

^3 (A)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family ^(B)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.