Leviticus 26:40-42

40“But if athey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they bcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemiesif then their cuncircumcised heart is dhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42then I will eremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will fremember the land.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

29 gBut 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. 30When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you hin the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31For the Lord your God is ia merciful God. jHe will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Deuteronomy 30:1-4

Repentance and Forgiveness

1 k“And lwhen all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and myou call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, 2and nreturn to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3then the Lord your God owill restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will pgather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 qIf your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.

1 Kings 8:47-49

47yet rif 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, s‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ 48 tif 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 utoward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, 49then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause

Nehemiah 1:8-9

8Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, vI will scatter you among the peoples, 9 wbut if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, xthough your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them yto the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’

Isaiah 55:6-7

6 zSeek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7let 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.
Copyright information for ESV