Isaiah 31:6
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6 Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have (A)deeply revolted.
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Jeremiah 3:14
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14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; (A)“for I am married to you. I will take you, (B)one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to (C)Zion.
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Jeremiah 3:22
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22 “Return, you backsliding children,
And I will (A)heal your backslidings.”
“Indeed we do come to You,
For You are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.
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Isaiah 55:7
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7 (A)Let the [a]wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man (B)his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
(C)And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 55:7 Lit. man of iniquity
Acts 26:20
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20 but (A)declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do (B)works befitting repentance.
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Acts 3:19
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19 (A)Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
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Joel 2:12-13
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A Call to Repentance
12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord,
(A)“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 So (B)rend your heart, and not (C)your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is (D)gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm.
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 9:9
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9 (A)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of (B)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.
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.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts
Jeremiah 5:23
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23 But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart;
They have revolted and departed.
Isaiah 48:8
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8 Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called (A)a transgressor from the womb.
Isaiah 29:15
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15 (A)Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord,
And their works are in the dark;
(B)They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
Isaiah 1:4-5
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4 Alas, sinful nation,
A people [a]laden with iniquity,
(A)A [b]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
5 (B)Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
- Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed
2 Chronicles 36:14
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14 Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 33:9-16
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9 So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Manasseh Restored After Repentance
10 And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not [a]listen. 11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with [b]hooks, (B)bound him with [c]bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon. 12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and (C)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He (D)received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh (E)knew that the Lord was God.
14 After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of (F)Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it (G)enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15 He took away (H)the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city. 16 He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings and (I)thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:10 obey
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 Nose hooks, 2 Kin. 19:28
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 chains
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