Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Hosea 6:1
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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
6 “Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
Joel 2:12-13
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Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and (C)rend your hearts and not (D)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(E)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(F)and he relents over disaster.
Hosea 12:6
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6 “So you, (A)by the help of your God, return,
(B)hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”
2 Chronicles 30:6-9
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6 (A)So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, (B)return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of (C)the kings of Assyria. 7 (D)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. 8 (E)Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, (F)that his fierce anger may turn away from you. 9 For (G)if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children (H)will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For (I)the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, (J)if you return to him.”
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Zechariah 1:3-4
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3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: (A)Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and (B)I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 (C)Do not be like your fathers, (D)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (E)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (F)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
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Acts 26:18-20
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18 (A)to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from (B)the power of Satan to God, that they may receive (C)forgiveness of sins and (D)a place among those who are sanctified (E)by faith in me.’
19 “Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to (F)the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first (G)to those in Damascus, (H)then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also (I)to the Gentiles, that they should (J)repent and (K)turn to God, performing deeds (L)in keeping with their repentance.
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Jeremiah 4:1
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4 “If you return, O Israel,
declares the Lord,
(A)to me you should return.
If you remove your detestable things from my presence,
(B)and do not waver,
Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 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.
Hosea 13:9
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Footnotes
- Hosea 13:9 Or I will destroy
Jeremiah 3:12-14
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12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say,
(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for (C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(D)I will not be angry forever.
13 (E)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (F)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
14 (G)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
(H)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
Ezekiel 28:14-16
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14 You were an anointed (A)guardian cherub.
I placed you;[a] you were on (B)the holy mountain of God;
in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
15 You were blameless in your ways
(C)from the day you were created,
till unrighteousness was found in you.
16 In the abundance of (D)your trade
you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from (E)the mountain of God,
and I destroyed you,[b] (F)O guardian cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 28:14 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
- Ezekiel 28:16 Or banished you
Lamentations 5:16
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16 (A)The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
Jeremiah 2:19
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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
1 Samuel 7:3-4
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Samuel Judges Israel
3 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, (A)“If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then (B)put away the foreign gods and the (C)Ashtaroth from among you and (D)direct your heart to the Lord (E)and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.
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