Proverbs 23:26
26 My son, give me your heart,and let your eyes observe ▼
▼Or delight in
my ways.Isaiah 55:6-7
6 b“Seek 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.
Jeremiah 3:10
10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me cwith her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”Jeremiah 24:7
7 dI will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, eand they shall be my people fand I will be their God, gfor they shall return to me with their whole heart.Jeremiah 29:12-14
12 hThen you will call upon me and come and pray to me, iand I will hear you. 13 jYou will seek me and find me, when you seek me kwith all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the Lord, land I will restore your fortunes and mgather you from all the nations and all the places nwhere I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.Daniel 9:13
13 oAs 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, pturning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.Hosea 14:1-2
A Plea to Return to the Lord
1 qReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,for ryou have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept swhat is good,
and we will pay with bulls
tthe vows ▼
▼Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
of our lips.
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