Deu 4:29-31, 2Ch 30:9, Psa 86:5, 15, 103:8, 17, 145:8, Jer 31:20 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

29 ^aBut 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 ^bin the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31 For the Lord your God is ^ca merciful God. ^dHe will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

2 Chronicles 30:9

9 For ^eif you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children ^fwill find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For ^gthe Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, ^hif you return to him.”

Psalms 86:5

5 For you, O Lord, are good and ⁱforgiving,
^jabounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Psalms 86:15

15 But you, O Lord, are a God ^kmerciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Psalms 103:8

8 The Lord is ^lmerciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalms 103:17

17 But ^mthe steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on ⁿthose who fear him,
and his righteousness to ^ochildren’s children,

Psalms 145:8

8 The Lord is ^pgracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Jeremiah 31:20

20 ^qIs Ephraim my dear son?
^rIs he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
^sTherefore my heart ^{▼▼Hebrew bowels} yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,

declares the Lord.