Hosea 5:15
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15 I will return again to My place
Till they [a]acknowledge their offense.
Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:15 Lit. become guilty or bear punishment
Isaiah 26:16
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16 Lord, (A)in trouble they have visited You,
They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
Jeremiah 29:12-14
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12 Then you will (A)call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will (B)listen to you. 13 And (C)you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me (D)with all your heart. 14 (E)I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; (F)I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
Psalm 78:34
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34 (A)When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought earnestly for God.
Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (B)scattered your [a]charms
To (C)alien deities (D)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways
Jeremiah 2:27
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27 Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a (A)stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their (B)trouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’
Psalm 50:15
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15 (A)Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”
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 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 31 (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor (D)destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
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- Deuteronomy 4:30 tribulation
Leviticus 26:40-42
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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—
42 then I will (E)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will (F)remember the land.
Luke 13:25
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25 (A)When once the Master of the house has risen up and (B)shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, (C)‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, (D)‘I do not know you, where you are from,’
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Hosea 3:5
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5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and (A)seek the Lord their God and (B)David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the (C)latter days.
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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 (B)will [a]loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.
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- Ezekiel 36:31 despise
Ezekiel 6:9
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9 Then those of you who escape will (A)remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because (B)I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and (C)by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; (D)they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.
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Isaiah 26:9
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9 (A)With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Zephaniah 2:1-3
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A Call to Repentance
2 Gather(A) yourselves together, yes, gather together,
O [a]undesirable nation,
2 Before the decree is issued,
Or the day passes like chaff,
Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!
3 (B)Seek the Lord, (C)all you meek of the earth,
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
(D)It may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:1 Or shameless
Micah 1:3
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3 For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place;
He will come down
And tread on the high places of the earth.
Hosea 14:1-3
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Israel Restored at Last
14 O Israel, (A)return to the Lord your God,
For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
2 Take words with you,
And return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
“Take away all iniquity;
Receive us graciously,
For we will offer the (B)sacrifices[a] of our lips.
3 Assyria shall (C)not save us,
(D)We will not ride on horses,
Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’
(E)For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:2 Lit. bull calves; LXX fruit
Hosea 5:6
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6 “With their flocks and herds
(A)They shall go to seek the Lord,
But they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn Himself from them.
Daniel 9:4-12
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4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O (A)Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 (B)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 (C)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, (D)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
8 “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9 (E)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. 10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, (F)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the (G)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has (H)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (I)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 20:43
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43 And (A)there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and (B)you shall [a]loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed.
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- Ezekiel 20:43 Or despise
Ezekiel 11:23
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23 And (A)the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and stood (B)on the mountain, (C)which is on the east side of the city.
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Ezekiel 10:4
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4 (A)Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the [a]temple; and (B)the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s (C)glory.
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- Ezekiel 10:4 Lit. house
Ezekiel 8:6
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6 Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great (A)abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
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18 “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
‘You have (A)chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained bull;
(B)Restore me, and I will return,
For You are the Lord my God.
19 Surely, (C)after my turning, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh;
I was (D)ashamed, yes, even humiliated,
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
(E)Therefore My [a]heart yearns for him;
(F)I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts
Isaiah 64:5-9
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5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—
(A)In these ways we continue;
And we need to be saved.
6 But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all (B)our righteousnesses are like [a]filthy rags;
We all (C)fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
7 And there is no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And have [b]consumed us because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord,
You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our (D)potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand.
9 Do not be furious, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 64:6 Lit. a filthy garment
- Isaiah 64:7 Lit. caused us to melt
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