Jeremiah 8:4
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The Blind Perversity of the Whole Nation
4 You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
When people fall, do they not get up again?
If they go astray, do they not turn back?(A)
Proverbs 24:16
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16 for though they fall seven times, they will rise again,
but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.(A)
Micah 7:8
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Penitence and Trust in God
8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemies;[a]
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.(A)
Footnotes
- 7.8 Heb enemy
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)
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)
Amos 5:2
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2 Fallen, no more to rise,
is maiden Israel;
forsaken on her land,
with no one to raise her up.(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)
Hosea 7:10
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10 Israel’s pride testifies against[a] him;
yet they do not return to the Lord their God
or seek him, for all this.(A)
Footnotes
- 7.10 Or humbles
Ezekiel 18:23
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23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?(A)
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Unfaithful Israel
3 If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
Would not such a land be greatly polluted?
You have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
and would you return to me?
says the Lord.(A)
Footnotes
- 3.1 Gk Syr: Heb Saying, If
Isaiah 44:22
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22 I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.(A)
1 Kings 8:38
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38 whatever prayer, whatever plea there is from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing the suffering of their own hearts so that they stretch out their hands toward this house;
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Jeremiah 36:3
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3 It may be that, when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.(A)
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Jeremiah 23:14
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14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a more shocking thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from wickedness;
all of them have become like Sodom to me
and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.(A)
Jeremiah 4:1
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4 If you return, O Israel,
says the Lord,
if you return to me,
if you remove your abominations from my presence
and do not waver,(A)
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)
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