Joel 2:12
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Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
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13 (A)When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name (B)humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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Hosea 12:6
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6 “So you, (A)by the help of your God, return,
(B)hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”
Jeremiah 4:1
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4 “If you return, O Israel,
declares the Lord,
(A)to me you should return.
If you remove your detestable things from my presence,
(B)and do not waver,
Jeremiah 29:12-13
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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart.
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Deuteronomy 4:29-30
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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (B)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.
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Hosea 6:1
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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
6 “Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
Zechariah 1:3-4
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3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: (A)Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and (B)I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 (C)Do not be like your fathers, (D)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (E)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (F)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
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Jonah 3:5-8
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5 (A)And the people of Nineveh believed God. (B)They called for a fast and (C)put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
The People of Nineveh Repent
6 The word reached[a] the king of Nineveh, and (D)he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, (E)and sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, (F)“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor (G)beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and (H)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. (I)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from (J)the violence that is in his hands.
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- Jonah 3:6 Or had reached
1 Samuel 7:6
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6 So they gathered at (A)Mizpah (B)and drew water and poured it out before the Lord (C)and fasted on that day and said there, (D)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
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Lamentations 3:40-41
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40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(A)and return to the Lord!
41 (B)Let us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
1 Samuel 7:3
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Samuel Judges Israel
3 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, (A)“If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then (B)put away the foreign gods and the (C)Ashtaroth from among you and (D)direct your heart to the Lord (E)and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
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Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Judges 20:26
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26 Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to (A)Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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Zechariah 7:3
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3 (A)saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and (B)the prophets, “Should I weep and (C)abstain in (D)the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
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Nehemiah 9:1-2
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The People of Israel Confess Their Sin
9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of (A)this month the people of Israel were assembled (B)with fasting (C)and in sackcloth, (D)and with earth on their heads. 2 (E)And the Israelites[a] separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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- Nehemiah 9:2 Hebrew the offspring of Israel
2 Chronicles 20:3-4
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3 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face (A)to seek the Lord, and (B)proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
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1 Kings 8:47-49
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47 yet (A)if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, (B)‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ 48 (C)if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you (D)toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, 49 then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
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Isaiah 22:12
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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;
2 Chronicles 6:38-39
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38 if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 39 then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
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Zechariah 12:10-14
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Him Whom They Have Pierced
10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 (F)On that day (G)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great (H)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, (I)each family[a] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of (J)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of (K)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.
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- Zechariah 12:12 Or clan; throughout verses 12–14
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