1 Kings 8:33-36

33 a“When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and bif they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 34then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.

35 c“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, 36then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when dyou teach them ethe good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

12And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God fand humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13He prayed to him, and gGod was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. hThen Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

Jeremiah 36:3

3 iIt may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, jso that every one may turn from his evil way, and kthat I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Daniel 9:13

13 lAs it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, mturning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.

Hosea 5:15

15 nI will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and oin their distress earnestly seek me.

Hosea 6:1

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

1 Come, let us preturn to the Lord;
for qhe has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and rhe will bind us up.

Hosea 14:1-3

A Plea to Return to the Lord

1 sReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for tyou have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
Take away all iniquity;
accept uwhat is good,
and we will pay with bulls
vthe vows
Septuagint, Syriac  pay the fruit
of our lips.
3 xAssyria shall not save us;
ywe will not ride on horses;
and zwe will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
aaIn you the orphan finds mercy.”
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