Hosea 5:15
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15 (A)I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and (B)in their distress earnestly seek me.
Isaiah 26:16
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16 O Lord, (A)in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
Jeremiah 29:12-14
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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, (E)and I will restore your fortunes and (F)gather you from all the nations and all the places (G)where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
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Psalm 78:34
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34 When he killed them, they (A)sought him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
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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. 31 For the Lord your God is (C)a merciful God. (D)He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
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Psalm 50:15
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Leviticus 26:40-42
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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, 42 then I will (E)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (F)remember the land.
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Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (B)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:27
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27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But (A)in the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’
Luke 13:25
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25 (A)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, (B)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, (C)‘I do not know where you come from.’
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Ezekiel 36:31
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31 Then (A)you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
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Ezekiel 6:9
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9 then those of you who escape (A)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how (B)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes (C)that go whoring after their idols. (D)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
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Isaiah 26:9
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9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
(A)For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Job 27:8-10
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8 (A)For what is the hope of the godless (B)when God cuts him off,
when God takes away his life?
9 (C)Will God hear his cry
when distress comes upon him?
10 Will he (D)take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call upon God at all times?
Zephaniah 2:1-3
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Judgment on Judah's Enemies
2 Gather together, yes, gather,
O (A)shameless nation,
2 (B)before the decree takes effect[a]
—before the day passes away (C)like chaff—
(D)before there comes upon you
the burning anger of the Lord,
before there comes upon you
the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 (E)Seek the Lord, (F)all you humble of the land,
who do his just commands;[b]
(G)seek righteousness; seek humility;
(H)perhaps (I)you may be hidden
on the day of the anger of the Lord.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth
- Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment
Micah 1:3
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3 For behold, (A)the Lord is coming out of (B)his place,
and will come down and (C)tread upon the high places of the earth.
Hosea 14:1-3
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
14 (A)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for (B)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept (C)what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
(D)the vows[a] of our lips.
3 (E)Assyria shall not save us;
(F)we will not ride on horses;
and (G)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(H)In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
Hosea 5:6
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6 (A)With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
(B)but they will not find him;
(C)he has withdrawn from them.
Daniel 9:4-12
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4 I prayed to the Lord my God and (A)made confession, saying, (B)“O Lord, the (C)great and awesome God, who (D)keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 (E)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (F)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 (G)We have not listened to (H)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (I)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, (J)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (K)those who are near and (L)those who are far away, in (M)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (N)the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (O)we have sinned against you. 9 (P)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (Q)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (R)his servants the prophets. 11 (S)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (T)refusing to obey your voice. (U)And the curse and oath (V)that are written in the Law of (W)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (X)we have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against (Y)our rulers who ruled us,[a] by (Z)bringing upon us a great calamity. (AA)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
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- Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
Ezekiel 20:43
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43 (A)And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, (B)and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
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Ezekiel 11:23
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23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and (A)stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.
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Ezekiel 10:4
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4 And (A)the glory of the Lord (B)went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house (C)was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with (D)the brightness of the glory of the Lord.
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Ezekiel 8:6
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6 And he said to me, “Son of man, (A)do you see what they are doing, (B)the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, (C)to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (F)Is Ephraim my dear son?
(G)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
(H)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels
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