Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return (A)to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.

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Yet from the days of (A)your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
(B)Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
(C)“But you said,
‘In what way shall we return?’

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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.

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Jeremiah Laments over Judah

“If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord,
(A)“Return to Me;
And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight,
Then you shall not be moved.

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and you (A)return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, (B)that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and (C)gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. (D)If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. And (E)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

“Also the Lord your God will put all these (F)curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. And you will (G)again obey the voice of the Lord and do all His commandments which I command you today. (H)The Lord your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the [a]fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the Lord will again (I)rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, 10 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 30:9 offspring

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.”

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15 (A)Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them (B)and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.

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Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have (A)deeply revolted.

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(A)Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and (C)purify your hearts, you double-minded. (D)Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (E)Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

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“I will heal their (A)backsliding,
I will (B)love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from him.

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A Call to Repentance

Come,(A) and let us return to the Lord;
For (B)He has torn, but (C)He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will [a]bind us up.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:1 Bandage

11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, (A)‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked (B)turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For (C)why should you die, O house of Israel?’

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39 (A)Why should a living man [a]complain,
(B)A man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
41 (C)Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:39 Or murmur

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