Hosea 6:1
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A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord,
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:39
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39 See now that I, even I, am he;
there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
and no one can deliver from my hand.(A)
1 Samuel 2:6
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6 The Lord kills and brings to life;
he brings down to Sheol and raises up.(A)
Job 5:18
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18 For he wounds, but he binds up;
he strikes, but his hands heal.(A)
Hosea 14:4
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Assurance of Forgiveness
4 I will heal their disloyalty;
I will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.(A)
Isaiah 2:3
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3 Many peoples shall come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(A)
Job 34:29
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29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him?
Whether nation or person, it is the same—(A)
Hosea 14:1
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A Plea for Repentance
14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)
Lamentations 3:40-41
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40 Let us test and examine our ways
and return to the Lord.(A)
41 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands
to God in heaven.(B)
Jeremiah 30:17
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17 For I will restore health to you,
and your wounds I will heal,
says the Lord,
because they have called you an outcast:
“It is Zion; no one cares for her!”(A)
Isaiah 55:7
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7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(A)
Hosea 13:7-9
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7 So I will become like a lion to them;
like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.(A)
8 I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs
and will tear open the covering of their heart;
there I will devour them like a lion,
as a wild animal would mangle them.
9 I will destroy you, O Israel;
who can help you?[a]
Footnotes
- 13.9 Gk Syr: Heb for in me is your help
Lamentations 3:32-33
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32 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;(A)
33 for he does not willingly afflict
or grieve anyone.(B)
Jeremiah 3:22
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22 Return, O faithless children,
I will heal your faithlessness.
“Here we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.(A)
Hosea 5:12-15
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12 Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim
and like rottenness to the house of Judah.(A)
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness
and Judah his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria
and sent to the great king.[a]
But he is not able to cure you
or heal your wound.(B)
14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.(C)
15 I will return again to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.
In their distress they will beg my favor:(D)
Footnotes
- 5.13 Cn: Heb to a king who will contend
Jeremiah 50:4
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4 In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the people of Israel shall come, they and the people of Judah together; they shall come weeping as they seek the Lord their God.(A)
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Jeremiah 33:5
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5 They are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of those whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.(A)
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Jeremiah 30:12
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12 For thus says the Lord:
Your hurt is incurable;
your wound is grievous.(A)
Isaiah 30:26
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26 Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when the Lord binds up the injuries of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.(A)
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Isaiah 30:22
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22 Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”(A)
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Psalm 30:7
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7 By your favor, O Lord,
you had established me as a strong mountain;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.(A)
Zephaniah 2:1
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