Isaiah 31:6

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⁶Return,^(A) you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted^(B) against.

Jeremiah 3:14

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¹⁴“Return,^(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.^(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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Jeremiah 3:22

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²²“Return,^(A) faithless people;
I will cure^(B) you of backsliding.”^(C)

“Yes, we will come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.

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Jeremiah 3:10

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¹⁰In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return^(A) to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,^(B)” declares the Lord.^(C)

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Isaiah 55:7

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⁷Let the wicked forsake^(A) their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.^(B)
Let them turn^(C) to the Lord, and he will have mercy^(D) on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.^(E)

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Acts 26:20

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²⁰First to those in Damascus,^(A) then to those in Jerusalem^(B) and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles,^(C) I preached that they should repent^(D) and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.^(E)

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Acts 3:19

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¹⁹Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out,^(A) that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

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Joel 2:12-13

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Rend Your Heart

¹²“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return^(A) to me with all your heart,^(B)
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

¹³Rend your heart^(C)
    and not your garments.^(D)
Return^(E) to the Lord your God,
    for he is gracious and compassionate,^(F)
slow to anger and abounding in love,^(G)
    and he relents from sending calamity.^(H)

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Hosea 14:1-3

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Repentance to Bring Blessing

14 ^[a]Return,^(A) Israel, to the Lord your God.
    Your sins^(B) have been your downfall!^(C)
²Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    “Forgive^(D) all our sins
and receive us graciously,^(E)
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.^[b]^(F)
³Assyria cannot save us;^(G)
    we will not mount warhorses.^(H)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’^(I)
    to what our own hands have made,^(J)
    for in you the fatherless^(K) find compassion.”

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Footnotes

Hosea 14:1 In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10.
Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls

Hosea 9:9

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⁹They have sunk deep into corruption,^(A)
as in the days of Gibeah.^(B)
God will remember^(C) their wickedness
and punish them for their sins.^(D)

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Jeremiah 31:18-20

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¹⁸“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined^(A) me like an unruly calf,^(B)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore^(C) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.
¹⁹After I strayed,^(D)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat^(E) my breast.
I was ashamed^(F) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’^(G)
²⁰Is not Ephraim my dear son,
    the child^(H) in whom I delight?
Though I often speak against him,
    I still remember^(I) him.
Therefore my heart yearns for him;
    I have great compassion^(J) for him,”
declares the Lord.

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Jeremiah 5:23

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²³But these people have stubborn and rebellious^(A) hearts;
they have turned aside^(B) and gone away.

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Isaiah 48:8

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⁸You have neither heard nor understood;^(A)
from of old your ears^(B) have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous^(C) you are;
you were called a rebel^(D) from birth.

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Isaiah 29:15

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¹⁵Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide^(A) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us?^(B) Who will know?”^(C)

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Isaiah 1:4-5

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⁴Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,^(A)
a brood of evildoers,^(B)
    children given to corruption!^(C)
They have forsaken^(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One^(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs^(F) on him.

⁵Why should you be beaten^(G) anymore?
Why do you persist^(H) in rebellion?^(I)
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart^(J) afflicted.^(K)

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2 Chronicles 36:14

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¹⁴Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful,^(A) following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 33:9-16

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⁹But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.^(A)

¹⁰The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. ¹¹So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner,^(B) put a hook^(C) in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles^(D) and took him to Babylon. ¹²In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled^(E) himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. ¹³And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.

¹⁴Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon^(F) spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate^(G) and encircling the hill of Ophel;^(H) he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

¹⁵He got rid of the foreign gods and removed^(I) the image from the temple of the Lord, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city. ¹⁶Then he restored the altar of the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings^(J) on it, and told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Isaiah 31:6

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Jeremiah 3:14

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Jeremiah 3:22

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Jeremiah 3:10

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Isaiah 55:7

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Acts 26:20

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Acts 3:19

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