If they
shall confess
their iniquity,
and the iniquity
of their fathers,
with their trespass
which they
trespassed against me,
and
that also
they have walked contrary
unto me;
And that
I also have walked contrary
unto them,
and have brought them
into the land
of their enemies;
if then
their uncircumcised hearts
be humbled,
and they then
accept
of the punishment
of their iniquity:
Then will
I remember
my covenant
with Jacob,
and also my covenant
with Isaac,
and also my covenant
with Abraham
will
I remember;
and
I will remember
the land.
Therefore the people
came
to Moses,
and said,
We have sinned,
for we
have spoken
against the LORD,
and against thee;
pray
unto the LORD,
that he
take away
the serpents
from us.
And Moses
prayed
for the people.
But
if from thence
thou shalt seek
the LORD thy God,
thou shalt find him,
if thou
seek him
with all thy heart
and
with all thy soul.
When
thou art
in tribulation,
and all these things
are come upon thee,
even in the latter days,
if thou
turn
to the LORD thy God,
and shalt be obedient
unto his voice;
(For the LORD
thy God
is a merciful God;)
he will not forsake thee,
neither destroy thee,
nor forget
the covenant
of thy
fathers
which he
sware unto them.
And it
shall come
to pass,
when all these things
are come upon thee,
the blessing
and the curse,
which I
have set
before thee,
and
thou shalt call them
to mind
among all the nations,
whither
the LORD thy God
hath driven thee,
And shalt return
unto the LORD thy God,
and shalt obey
his voice
according to all
that
I command thee
this day,
thou
and thy children,
with all thine heart,
and
with all thy soul;
That then
the LORD thy God
will turn
thy captivity,
and have compassion
upon thee,
and will return
and gather thee
from all the nations,
whither
the LORD thy God
hath scattered thee.
If any of thine
be driven out
unto the outmost parts
of heaven,
from thence will
the LORD thy God
gather thee,
and
from thence will
he fetch thee:
And the LORD
thy God
will bring thee
into the land
which thy fathers possessed,
and
thou shalt possess it;
and
he will do thee good,
and multiply
thee above thy fathers.
And the LORD
thy God
will circumcise
thine heart,
and the heart
of thy seed,
to love the LORD
thy God
with all thine heart,
and
with all thy soul,
that thou
mayest live.
And the LORD
thy God
will put all
these curses
upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee,
which persecuted thee.
And
thou shalt return
and obey
the voice
of the LORD,
and do all
his commandments
which I
command thee
this day.
And the LORD
thy God
will make thee plenteous
in every work
of thine hand,
in the fruit
of thy body,
and
in the fruit
of thy cattle,
and
in the fruit
of thy land,
for good:
for the LORD
will again rejoice
over thee
for good,
as he
rejoiced over thy fathers:
If thou
shalt hearken
unto the voice
of the LORD thy God,
to keep
his commandments
and his statutes
which are written in this book
of the law,
and
if thou
turn
unto the LORD thy God
with all thine heart,
and
with all thy soul.
O that
they were wise,
that they
understood this,
that they
would consider
their latter end!
And David's heart
smote him
after that
he had numbered
the people.
And David
said
unto the LORD,
I have sinned greatly
in that
I have done:
and now,
I beseech thee,
O LORD,
take away the iniquity
of thy servant;
for I
have done
very foolishly.
And David
spake unto the LORD
when
he saw
the angel
that smote the people,
and said,
Lo,
I have sinned,
and
I have done wickedly:
but these sheep,
what have
they done?
let thine hand,
I pray thee,
be against me,
and
against my father's house.
When
thy people Israel
be smitten down
before the enemy,
because
they have sinned
against thee,
and shall turn
again to thee,
and confess
thy name,
and pray,
and make supplication
unto thee
in this house:
Then hear
thou in heaven,
and forgive
the sin
of thy people Israel,
and bring them again
unto the land
which thou
gavest unto their fathers.
When heaven
is shut up,
and there is
no rain,
because
they have sinned
against thee;
if they
pray toward
this place,
and confess
thy name,
and turn
from their sin,
when
thou afflictest them:
Then hear
thou in heaven,
and forgive
the sin
of thy servants,
and of thy people Israel,
that thou
teach them
the good way
wherein they
should walk,
and give rain
upon thy land,
which thou
hast given
to thy people
for an inheritance.
If there be
in the land famine,
if there be pestilence,
blasting,
mildew,
locust,
or if
there be
caterpiller;
if their enemy
besiege them
in the land
of their cities;
whatsoever plague,
whatsoever sickness
there be;
What prayer
and supplication
soever be made
by any man,
or by all
thy people Israel,
which shall know every man
the plague
of his own heart,
and spread
forth his hands
toward this house:
Then hear
thou in heaven
thy dwelling place,
and forgive,
and do,
and give
to every man
according to his ways,
whose heart
thou knowest;
(for thou,
even thou only,
knowest the hearts
of all the children
of men;)
That they
may fear
thee all
the days that
they live
in the land
which thou
gavest unto our fathers.
Moreover concerning
a stranger,
that is not
of thy people Israel,
but cometh out of a
far country
for thy name's sake;
(For they
shall hear
of thy great name,
and of thy strong hand,
and of thy stretched out arm;)
when
he shall come
and pray toward
this house;
Hear
thou in heaven
thy dwelling place,
and do according to all
that the stranger calleth
to thee for:
that all people
of the earth
may know
thy name,
to fear thee,
as do thy people Israel;
and that
they
may know
that this house,
which I
have builded,
is called by thy name.
If thy people go out
to battle
against their enemy,
whithersoever
thou shalt send them,
and shall pray
unto the LORD
toward the city which
thou hast chosen,
and
toward the house
that
I have built
for thy name:
Then hear
thou
in heaven
their prayer
and their supplication,
and maintain
their cause.
If they
sin
against thee,
(for there is no man
that sinneth not,)
and
thou be angry
with them,
and deliver them
to the enemy,
so that
they carry them away captives
unto the land
of the enemy,
far or near;
Yet
if they
shall bethink themselves
in the land
whither
they were carried
captives,
and repent,
and make supplication
unto thee
in the land
of them that
carried them
captives,
saying,
We have sinned,
and have done perversely,
we have committed
wickedness;
And so
return unto thee
with all their heart,
and
with all their soul,
in the land
of their enemies,
which led them away captive,
and pray
unto thee
toward their land,
which thou
gavest unto their fathers,
the city which
thou hast chosen,
and the house
which I
have built
for thy name:
Then hear
thou their prayer
and their supplication
in heaven
thy dwelling place,
and maintain
their cause,
And forgive
thy people that
have sinned
against thee,
and all
their transgressions
wherein they
have transgressed
against thee,
and give them compassion
before them
who carried them captive,
that they
may have compassion
on them:
If my people,
which are called
by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray,
and seek my face,
and turn
from their wicked ways;
then will
I hear
from heaven,
and will forgive
their sin,
and will heal
their land.
For our fathers
have trespassed,
and done
that which
was evil
in the eyes
of the LORD our God,
and have forsaken him,
and have turned away
their faces
from the habitation
of the LORD,
and turned
their backs.
So the posts
went with the letters
from the king
and his princes
throughout all Israel
and Judah,
and
according to
the commandment
of the king,
saying,
Ye children
of Israel,
turn
again
unto the LORD God
of Abraham, Isaac,
and Israel,
and
he will return
to the remnant
of you,
that are escaped
out of the hand
of the kings
of Assyria.
And be not
ye like
your fathers,
and like
your brethren,
which trespassed
against the LORD God
of their fathers,
who therefore gave them
up to desolation,
as ye see.
Now be
ye not stiffnecked,
as your fathers were,
but yield yourselves
unto the LORD,
and enter
into his sanctuary,
which he
hath sanctified
for ever:
and serve
the LORD your God,
that the fierceness
of his wrath
may turn away
from you.
For if
ye turn again
unto the LORD,
your brethren
and your children
shall find compassion
before them that lead
them captive,
so that
they shall come again
into this land:
for the LORD
your God
is gracious
and merciful,
and will not turn away
his face
from you,
if ye
return unto him.
Then were assembled
unto me every one
that trembled
at the words
of the God
of Israel,
because
of the transgression
of those
that had been carried away;
and
I sat astonied
until the evening sacrifice.
And said,
O my God,
I am ashamed
and blush
to lift
up my face
to thee,
my God:
for our iniquities
are increased
over our head,
and our trespass
is grown up
unto the heavens.
And now,
O our God,
what shall
we say
after this?
for we
have forsaken
thy commandments,
And after
all that is come upon us
for our evil deeds,
and
for our great trespass,
seeing that
thou our God
hast punished us less than
our iniquities deserve,
and hast given us
such deliverance
as this;
Should
we again break
thy commandments,
and join
in affinity
with the people
of these abominations?
wouldest not
thou be angry
with us
till thou
hadst consumed us,
so that
there should be
no remnant
nor escaping?
Let thine ear
now be attentive,
and thine
eyes open,
that thou
mayest hear the prayer
of thy servant,
which I
pray
before thee now,
day and night,
for the children
of Israel thy servants,
and confess
the sins
of the children
of Israel,
which we
have sinned
against thee:
both I
and my father's house
have sinned.
We have dealt very
corruptly against thee,
and have not kept
the commandments,
nor the statutes,
nor the judgments,
which thou
commandedst
thy servant Moses.
But
if ye
turn unto me,
and keep
my commandments,
and do them;
though there were
of you
cast out
unto the uttermost part
of the heaven,
yet will
I gather them
from thence,
and will bring them
unto the place
that I
have chosen
to set my name there.
Howbeit
thou art
just in all that is
brought upon us;
for thou
hast done right,
but
we have done wickedly:
Neither have
our kings,
our princes,
our priests,
nor our fathers,
kept thy law,
nor hearkened
unto thy commandments
and thy testimonies,
wherewith
thou
didst testify against them.
For they
have not served thee
in their kingdom,
and in thy great goodness
that thou
gavest them,
and
in the large
and fat land which
thou gavest
before them,
neither turned
they
from their wicked works.
I have sinned;
what shall
I do unto thee,
O thou preserver
of men?
why hast
thou set me
as a mark
against thee,
so that
I am a burden
to myself?
If I
justify myself,
mine
own
mouth
shall condemn me:
if I say,
I am perfect,
it shall also prove me perverse.
If thou
prepare thine heart,
and stretch out thine
hands toward him;
If iniquity
be in thine hand,
put it far away,
and let not
wickedness dwell
in thy tabernacles.
For then
shalt
thou lift up thy
face without spot;
yea,
thou shalt be stedfast,
and shalt not fear:
How many
are mine iniquities
and sins?
make me
to know
my transgression
and my sin.
If thou
return
to the Almighty,
thou shalt be built up,
thou shalt put away iniquity far
from thy tabernacles.
He shall pray
unto God,
and
he will be favourable
unto him:
and he
shall see
his face
with joy:
for he
will render
unto man
his righteousness.
He looketh
upon men,
and if any say,
I have sinned,
and perverted
that which
was right,
and it
profited me not;
He will deliver
his soul
from going
into the pit,
and his life
shall see
the light.
Surely
it is
meet
to be said
unto God,
I have borne
chastisement,
I will not offend
any more:
That which
I see
not teach
thou me:
if I
have done iniquity,
I will do no more.
He openeth also their ear
to discipline,
and commandeth
that they
return
from iniquity.
Behold,
I am vile;
what shall
I answer thee?
I will lay mine hand
upon my mouth.
I have heard
of thee
by the hearing
of the ear:
but now
mine
eye seeth thee.
All the ends
of the world
shall remember
and turn
unto the LORD:
and all
the kindreds
of the nations
shall worship
before thee.
I acknowledge
my sin
unto thee,
and mine iniquity
have I not hid.
I said,
I will confess
my transgressions
unto the LORD;
and
thou forgavest
the iniquity
of my sin.
Selah.
Depart from evil,
and do good;
seek peace,
and pursue it.
The eyes
of the LORD
are upon the righteous,
and his ears
are open
unto their cry.
The face
of the LORD
is against them that
do evil,
to cut off
the remembrance
of them
from the earth.
The righteous cry,
and the LORD heareth,
and delivereth them
out of all their troubles.
The LORD
is nigh
unto them that
are of a broken heart;
and saveth
such as be
of a contrite spirit.
There is no soundness
in my flesh
because of thine anger;
neither is there
any rest
in my bones
because
of my sin.
For mine iniquities
are
gone over mine head:
as an heavy burden
they are too heavy
for me.
For I
will declare
mine iniquity;
I will be sorry
for my sin.
For innumerable evils
have compassed me about:
mine iniquities
have taken
hold upon me,
so that
I am not able
to look up;
they
are more than
the hairs
of mine head:
therefore my heart
faileth me.
I said,
LORD,
be merciful
unto me:
heal my soul;
for I have sinned
against thee.
Have mercy
upon me, O God,
according to
thy lovingkindness:
according
unto the multitude
of thy
tender mercies
blot
out my transgressions.
Wash me
throughly from mine iniquity,
and cleanse me
from my sin.
For I
acknowledge
my transgressions:
and my sin
is ever
before me.
Against thee,
thee only,
have
I sinned,
and done
this evil
in thy sight:
that thou
mightest be justified
when
thou speakest,
and be
clear
when thou judgest.
Purge me
with hyssop,
and
I shall be clean:
wash me,
and
I shall be whiter
than snow.
Make me to hear
joy
and gladness;
that the bones which
thou hast broken
may rejoice.
Hide
thy face
from my sins,
and blot
out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart,
O God;
and renew
a right spirit
within me.
Cast me not
away from thy presence;
and take not
thy holy spirit
from me.
Restore
unto me the joy
of thy salvation;
and uphold me
with thy free spirit.
Then will
I teach transgressors
thy ways;
and sinners
shall be converted
unto thee.
Deliver me
from bloodguiltiness,
O God,
thou God
of my salvation:
and my tongue
shall sing aloud
of thy righteousness.
O Lord,
open thou
my lips;
and my mouth
shall shew
forth thy praise.
For thou
desirest not sacrifice;
else
would
I give it:
thou delightest not
in burnt offering.
The sacrifices
of God
are a broken spirit:
a broken
and a contrite heart,
O God,
thou wilt not despise.
O God,
thou knowest
my foolishness;
and my sins
are not hid from thee.
Thus my heart
was grieved,
and
I was pricked
in my reins.
For he
is our God;
and
we are the people
of his pasture,
and the sheep
of his hand.
To day
if ye
will hear
his voice,
Harden not
your heart,
as in the provocation,
and
as in the day
of temptation
in the wilderness:
We have sinned
with our fathers,
we have committed
iniquity,
we have done wickedly.
I thought
on my ways,
and turned
my feet
unto thy testimonies.
I made haste,
and delayed not
to keep
thy commandments.
I have gone astray like
a lost sheep;
seek thy servant;
for I
do not forget
thy commandments.
Out of the depths
have
I cried
unto thee,
O LORD.
Lord,
hear my voice:
let thine ears
be attentive
to the voice
of my supplications.
If thou,
LORD,
shouldest mark
iniquities,
O Lord,
who shall stand?
He healeth the broken in heart,
and bindeth up their wounds.
How long,
ye simple ones,
will
ye love
simplicity?
and the scorners
delight
in their scorning,
and fools
hate knowledge?
Turn you
at my reproof:
behold,
I will pour
out my spirit
unto you,
I will make
known my words
unto you.
Forsake the foolish,
and live;
and go in
the way
of understanding.
He that
covereth
his sins
shall not prosper:
but whoso
confesseth
and forsaketh them
shall have mercy.
Then said I,
Woe is me!
for I
am undone;
because
I am a man
of unclean lips,
and
I dwell
in the midst
of a people
of unclean lips:
for mine
eyes
have seen
the King,
the LORD
of hosts.
The remnant
shall return,
even the remnant
of Jacob,
unto the mighty God.
And in that day
did
the Lord GOD
of hosts
call
to weeping,
and to mourning,
and to baldness,
and to girding
with sackcloth:
Turn
ye unto him
from whom
the children
of Israel
have deeply revolted.
What shall
I say?
he hath both spoken
unto me,
and himself
hath done it:
I shall go softly all
my years
in the bitterness
of my soul.
Behold,
for peace
I had
great bitterness:
but
thou hast
in love
to my soul
delivered it
from the pit
of corruption:
for thou
hast cast all
my sins
behind thy back.
I have blotted out,
as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions,
and,
as a cloud,
thy sins:
return unto me;
for I
have redeemed thee.
Remember this,
and shew yourselves men:
bring it
again to mind,
O ye transgressors.
Seek ye
the LORD
while he
may be found,
call
ye upon him
while he
is near:
Let the wicked
forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man
his thoughts:
and let him
return
unto the LORD,
and
he will have mercy
upon him;
and to our God,
for he
will abundantly pardon.
For thus
saith the high
and lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name
is Holy;
I dwell
in the high
and holy place,
with him also that is
of a contrite
and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit
of the humble,
and
to revive
the heart
of the contrite
ones.
For our transgressions
are multiplied
before thee,
and our sins
testify against us:
for our transgressions
are with us;
and
as for our iniquities,
we know them;
And the Redeemer
shall come
to Zion,
and unto them that turn
from transgression
in Jacob,
saith the LORD.
The Spirit
of the Lord GOD
is upon me;
because
the LORD
hath anointed me
to preach good tidings
unto the meek;
he hath sent me
to bind
up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty
to the captives,
and the opening
of the prison
to them
that are bound;
To proclaim
the acceptable year
of the LORD,
and the day
of vengeance
of our God;
to comfort all
that mourn;
Thou meetest him
that
rejoiceth
and worketh
righteousness,
those that
remember thee
in thy ways:
behold,
thou art wroth;
for we have sinned:
in those
is continuance,
and
we shall be saved.
But
we are all
as an unclean thing,
and all
our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags;
and
we all do fade
as a leaf;
and our iniquities,
like the wind,
have taken us away.
And there is none
that calleth
upon thy name,
that stirreth
up himself
to take
hold of thee:
for thou
hast
hid
thy face from us,
and hast consumed us,
because
of our iniquities.
Wilt
thou
not from this time cry
unto me, My father,
thou art
the guide
of my youth?
Go and proclaim
these words
toward the north,
and say,
Return,
thou backsliding Israel,
saith the LORD;
and I
will not cause
mine
anger
to fall upon you:
for I
am merciful,
saith the LORD,
and
I will not keep
anger
for ever.
Only acknowledge
thine iniquity,
that thou
hast transgressed
against the LORD thy God,
and hast scattered
thy ways
to the strangers
under every green tree,
and
ye have not obeyed
my voice,
saith the LORD.
Turn,
O backsliding children,
saith the LORD;
for I
am married
unto you:
and I
will take
you one
of a city,
and two
of a family,
and
I will bring you
to Zion:
But I said,
How shall
I put thee
among the children,
and give
thee a pleasant land,
a goodly heritage
of the hosts
of nations?
and I said,
Thou shalt call me,
My father;
and
shalt not turn away from me.
A voice
was heard
upon the high places,
weeping and supplications
of the children
of Israel:
for they
have perverted
their way,
and
they have forgotten
the LORD their God.
Return,
ye backsliding children,
and
I will heal
your backslidings.
Behold,
we come
unto thee;
for thou art
the LORD our God.
We lie down
in our shame,
and our confusion
covereth us:
for we have sinned
against the LORD
our God,
we and our fathers,
from our youth
even unto this day,
and have not obeyed
the voice
of the LORD our God.
If thou
wilt return,
O Israel,
saith the LORD,
return unto me:
and
if thou
wilt put away
thine abominations
out of my sight,
then shalt
thou not remove.
And
thou shalt swear,
The LORD liveth,
in truth,
in judgment,
and
in righteousness;
and the nations
shall bless themselves in him,
and in him shall
they glory.
For thus
saith the LORD
to the men
of Judah
and Jerusalem,
Break up
your fallow ground,
and sow not
among thorns.
Circumcise yourselves
to the LORD,
and take away
the foreskins
of your heart,
ye men
of Judah
and inhabitants
of Jerusalem:
lest my fury
come forth like fire,
and burn
that none
can quench it,
because
of the evil
of your doings.
O Jerusalem,
wash thine heart
from wickedness,
that thou
mayest be saved.
How long
shall
thy vain thoughts
lodge
within thee?
Be thou instructed,
O Jerusalem,
lest my soul
depart from thee;
lest
I make thee desolate,
a land
not inhabited.
Thus saith the LORD,
Stand
ye in the ways,
and see,
and ask for
the old paths,
where is the good way,
and walk therein,
and
ye shall find
rest
for your souls.
But they said,
We will not walk
therein.
For if
ye throughly amend
your ways
and your doings;
if ye
throughly execute judgment
between a man
and his neighbour;
Then will
I cause
you
to dwell
in this place,
in the land
that I
gave to your fathers,
for ever
and ever.
Why do
we sit still?
assemble yourselves,
and let us
enter
into the defenced cities,
and let us
be silent there:
for the LORD
our God
hath put us
to silence,
and given us
water
of gall to drink,
because
we have sinned
against the LORD.
Hear ye,
and give ear;
be not proud:
for the LORD
hath spoken.
Give
glory
to the LORD your God,
before he
cause darkness,
and before your feet
stumble
upon the dark mountains,
and,
while ye
look for light,
he turn it
into the shadow
of death,
and make it gross darkness.
O LORD,
though our iniquities
testify against us,
do thou it
for thy name's sake:
for our backslidings
are many;
we have sinned
against thee.
We acknowledge,
O LORD,
our wickedness,
and the iniquity
of our fathers:
for we have sinned
against thee.
If that nation,
against whom
I have pronounced,
turn
from their evil,
I will repent
of the evil
that I
thought
to do unto them.
Now therefore go to,
speak to the men
of Judah,
and
to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD;
Behold,
I frame evil
against you,
and devise
a device
against you:
return
ye now every one
from his evil way,
and make
your ways
and your doings good.
And
I will give them
an heart
to know me,
that I
am the LORD:
and
they shall be
my people,
and
I will be
their God:
for they
shall return
unto me
with their whole heart.
They said,
Turn
ye again now
every one
from his evil way,
and from the evil
of your doings,
and dwell
in the land
that the LORD
hath given
unto you
and to your fathers
for ever
and ever:
If so
be they
will hearken,
and turn every man
from his evil way,
that I
may repent me
of the evil,
which I
purpose to do
unto them
because
of the evil
of their doings.
Therefore now amend your ways
and your doings,
and obey
the voice
of the LORD your God;
and the LORD
will repent him
of the evil
that
he hath pronounced
against you.
They shall come
with weeping,
and
with supplications
will
I lead them:
I will cause them
to walk
by the rivers
of waters
in a straight way,
wherein they
shall not stumble:
for I am
a father
to Israel,
and Ephraim
is my firstborn.
I have surely heard Ephraim
bemoaning himself thus;
Thou hast chastised me,
and
I was chastised,
as a bullock unaccustomed
to the yoke:
turn thou me,
and
I shall be turned;
for thou art
the LORD my God.
Surely after that
I was turned,
I repented;
and after that
I was instructed,
I smote upon my thigh:
I was ashamed,
yea,
even confounded,
because
I did bear
the reproach
of my youth.
It may be
that
the house
of Judah
will hear all the evil
which I
purpose
to do unto them;
that they
may return every man
from his evil way;
that I
may forgive
their iniquity
and their sin.
It may be
they will present
their supplication
before the LORD,
and will return
every one
from his evil way:
for great
is the anger
and the fury
that the LORD
hath pronounced
against this people.
In those days,
and in that time,
saith the LORD,
the children
of Israel
shall come,
they and the children
of Judah
together,
going and weeping:
they shall go,
and seek
the LORD their God.
They shall ask
the way
to Zion
with their faces thitherward,
saying,
Come,
and let us
join ourselves
to the LORD
in a perpetual covenant
that shall not be forgotten.
Let us
search
and try
our ways,
and turn again
to the LORD.
But
they that escape
of them shall escape,
and shall be
on the mountains like
doves
of the valleys,
all of them mourning,
every one
for his iniquity.
And
they shall come thither,
and they
shall take away all
the detestable things
thereof
and all
the abominations
thereof from thence.
And
I will give them
one heart,
and I
will put
a new spirit
within you;
and I
will take
the stony heart
out of their flesh,
and will give them
an heart
of flesh:
That they
may walk
in my statutes,
and keep
mine ordinances,
and do them:
and
they shall be
my people,
and
I will be
their God.
Therefore,
thou son of man,
prepare thee stuff
for removing,
and remove by day
in their sight;
and
thou shalt remove
from thy
place
to another place
in their sight:
it may be
they will consider,
though they
be a rebellious house.
Therefore say
unto the house
of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Repent,
and turn yourselves
from your idols;
and turn away
your faces
from all
your abominations.
Then
thou shalt remember
thy ways,
and be ashamed,
when
thou shalt receive
thy sisters,
thine elder
and thy younger:
and
I will give them
unto thee
for daughters,
but not by thy covenant.
And
I will establish
my covenant
with thee;
and
thou shalt know
that I
am the LORD:
That thou
mayest remember,
and be confounded,
and never open thy
mouth any more
because of thy shame,
when
I am pacified toward thee
for all
that thou
hast done,
saith the Lord GOD.
But if the wicked
will turn
from all
his sins that
he hath committed,
and keep all
my statutes,
and do
that which
is lawful
and right,
he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
All his transgressions that
he hath committed,
they shall not be mentioned
unto him:
in his righteousness
that
he hath done
he shall live.
Have
I any pleasure
at all
that the wicked
should die?
saith the Lord GOD:
and
not
that he
should return
from his ways,
and live?
Again,
when the wicked man
turneth away
from his wickedness
that
he hath committed,
and doeth
that which
is lawful
and right,
he shall save
his soul alive.
Because
he considereth,
and turneth away
from all
his transgressions that
he hath committed,
he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
Therefore I
will judge you,
O house
of Israel,
every one
according to his ways,
saith the Lord GOD.
Repent,
and turn yourselves
from all
your transgressions;
so iniquity
shall not be
your ruin.
Cast away
from you all
your transgressions,
whereby
ye have transgressed;
and make
you a new heart
and a new spirit:
for why
will
ye die,
O house
of Israel?
And there shall
ye remember
your ways,
and all
your doings,
wherein ye
have been defiled;
and ye
shall lothe yourselves
in your own sight
for all
your evils that
ye have committed.
Therefore,
O thou son
of man,
speak
unto the house
of Israel;
Thus
ye speak,
saying,
If our transgressions
and our sins
be upon us,
and
we pine away in them,
how should we
then live?
Say unto them,
As I live,
saith the Lord GOD,
I have no pleasure
in the death
of the wicked;
but
that the wicked turn
from his way
and live:
turn ye,
turn
ye from your evil ways;
for why
will
ye die,
O house
of Israel?
Therefore,
thou son of man,
say
unto the children
of thy people,
The righteousness
of the righteous
shall not deliver him
in the day
of his transgression:
as for the wickedness
of the wicked,
he shall not fall thereby
in the day
that he
turneth from his wickedness;
neither shall
the righteous
be able
to live
for his righteousness
in the day
that he sinneth.
Neither shall
they defile themselves any more
with their idols,
nor
with their detestable things,
nor with any
of their transgressions:
but
I will save them
out of all their dwellingplaces,
wherein they
have sinned,
and will cleanse them:
so shall
they be
my people,
and
I will be
their God.
Wherefore,
O king,
let my counsel
be acceptable
unto thee,
and break off thy
sins
by righteousness,
and thine iniquities
by shewing mercy
to the poor;
if it
may be
a lengthening
of thy tranquillity.
We have sinned,
and have committed
iniquity,
and have done wickedly,
and have rebelled,
even by departing
from thy precepts
and from thy judgments:
Neither have
we hearkened
unto thy servants the prophets,
which spake in thy
name
to our kings,
our princes,
and our fathers,
and
to all the people
of the land.
O LORD,
righteousness
belongeth
unto thee,
but unto us confusion of faces,
as at this day;
to the men
of Judah,
and
to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
and
unto all Israel,
that are near,
and that
are
far off,
through all the countries
whither
thou hast driven them,
because
of their trespass
that
they have trespassed
against thee.
Then said
he unto me,
Fear not,
Daniel:
for from the first day
that thou
didst set
thine heart
to understand,
and
to chasten thyself
before thy God,
thy words
were heard,
and I
am come for thy words.
And
she shall follow
after her lovers,
but
she shall not overtake them;
and
she shall seek them,
but shall not find them:
then shall
she say,
I will go
and return
to my first husband;
for then
was
it better
with me than now.
Afterward shall
the children
of Israel return,
and seek
the LORD their God,
and David
their king;
and shall fear
the LORD
and his goodness
in the latter days.
I will go
and return
to my place,
till they
acknowledge
their offence,
and seek my face:
in their affliction
they will seek me early.
Come,
and let us
return
unto the LORD:
for he
hath torn,
and
he will heal us;
he hath smitten,
and
he will bind us up.
Sow to yourselves
in righteousness,
reap in mercy;
break up
your fallow ground:
for it
is time
to seek the LORD,
till he come
and rain righteousness
upon you.
Therefore turn
thou to thy God:
keep mercy
and judgment
and wait
on thy God continually.
O israel,
return
unto the LORD thy God;
for thou
hast fallen
by thine iniquity.
Take with you words,
and turn
to the LORD:
say unto him,
Take away all iniquity,
and receive us graciously:
so will
we render
the calves
of our lips.
Asshur shall not save us;
we will not ride
upon horses:
neither will
we say any more
to the work
of our hands,
Ye are our gods:
for in thee
the fatherless
findeth mercy.
Ephraim shall say,
What
have
I to do any more
with idols?
I have heard him,
and observed him:
I am like
a green fir tree.
From me is
thy fruit found.
Sanctify
ye a fast,
call a solemn assembly,
gather the elders
and all
the inhabitants
of the land
into the house
of the LORD your God,
and cry
unto the LORD,
Therefore also now,
saith the LORD,
turn
ye even to me with all
your heart,
and with fasting,
and with weeping,
and
with mourning:
And rend
your heart,
and
not your garments,
and turn
unto the LORD your God:
for he
is gracious
and merciful,
slow to anger,
and of great kindness,
and repenteth him
of the evil.
Who knoweth
if he
will return
and repent,
and leave
a blessing behind him;
even
a meat
offering
and a drink
offering
unto the LORD
your God?
Blow the trumpet
in Zion,
sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly:
Gather the people,
sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders,
gather the children,
and
those that suck
the breasts:
let the bridegroom
go forth
of his chamber,
and the bride
out of her closet.
Let the priests,
the ministers
of the LORD,
weep
between the porch
and the altar,
and let them say,
Spare thy people,
O LORD,
and give not
thine heritage
to reproach,
that the heathen
should rule over them:
wherefore should
they say
among the people,
Where is their God?
Then will
the LORD
be jealous
for his land,
and pity
his people.
Therefore thus
will
I do unto thee,
O Israel:
and
because
I will do this
unto thee,
prepare to meet
thy God, O Israel.
Seek the LORD,
and
ye shall live;
lest
he break
out like fire
in the house
of Joseph,
and devour it,
and there be none
to quench it
in Bethel.
Hate the evil,
and love
the good,
and establish judgment
in the gate:
it may be
that the LORD God
of hosts
will be gracious
unto the remnant
of Joseph.
But let man
and beast
be covered
with sackcloth,
and cry mightily
unto God:
yea,
let them
turn every one
from his evil way,
and
from the violence
that is
in their hands.
Who can tell
if God
will turn
and repent,
and turn away
from his fierce anger,
that we
perish not?
And God
saw their works,
that they
turned
from their evil way;
and God
repented
of the evil,
that he
had said
that he
would do unto them;
and
he did it not.
I will bear the indignation
of the LORD,
because
I have sinned against him,
until he
plead my cause,
and execute judgment
for me:
he will bring
me forth
to the light,
and
I shall behold
his righteousness.
Thus saith
the LORD
of hosts;
Consider your ways.
Therefore say
thou unto them,
Thus
saith
the LORD
of hosts;
Turn ye unto me,
saith the LORD
of hosts,
and
I will turn
unto you,
saith the LORD
of hosts.
And
I will pour upon the house
of David,
and
upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
the spirit
of grace
and of supplications:
and
they shall look
upon me whom
they have pierced,
and
they
shall mourn for him,
as one
mourneth for his only son,
and shall be
in bitterness
for him,
as one
that is
in bitterness
for his firstborn.
Even from
the days
of your fathers
ye are gone away
from mine ordinances,
and have not kept them.
Return unto me,
and
I will return
unto you,
saith the LORD
of hosts.
But ye said,
Wherein
shall we return?
And saying,
Repent ye:
for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand.
But
when he
saw many
of the Pharisees
and Sadducees come
to his baptism,
he said unto them,
O generation
of vipers,
who hath warned you
to flee
from the wrath
to come?
Bring forth therefore fruits
meet
for repentance:
From that time Jesus
began to preach,
and to say,
Repent:
for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand.
Blessed
are
they that mourn:
for they
shall be comforted.
But go
ye and learn
what
that meaneth,
I will have mercy,
and not sacrifice:
for I am not come
to call
the righteous,
but sinners
to repentance.
John did baptize
in the wilderness,
and preach
the baptism
of repentance
for the remission
of sins.
And saying,
The time
is fulfilled,
and
the kingdom
of God
is at hand:
repent ye,
and believe
the gospel.
When Jesus
heard it,
he saith unto them,
They that
are whole
have
no need
of the physician,
but they
that are sick:
I came not
to call the righteous,
but sinners
to repentance.
And
they went out,
and preached
that men
should repent.
I came not
to call the righteous,
but sinners
to repentance.
Woe unto thee,
Chorazin!
woe unto thee,
Bethsaida!
for if
the mighty works
had been done
in Tyre
and Sidon,
which have been done
in you,
they had a great
while ago repented,
sitting in sackcloth
and ashes.
There were
present
at that season
some
that told him
of the Galilaeans,
whose blood Pilate
had mingled
with their sacrifices.
And Jesus
answering
said unto them,
Suppose
ye that
these Galilaeans
were
sinners above all the Galilaeans,
because
they suffered
such things?
I tell you,
Nay:
but,
except ye repent,
ye shall all
likewise perish.
Or
those eighteen,
upon whom
the tower
in Siloam fell,
and slew them,
think ye that
they were sinners above all men
that dwelt
in Jerusalem?
I tell you,
Nay:
but,
except ye repent,
ye shall all
likewise perish.
I say unto you,
that likewise joy
shall be
in heaven
over one sinner
that repenteth,
more than over ninety
and nine
just persons,
which need no repentance.
And
when he
came
to himself,
he said,
How many
hired
servants of my father's
have bread enough
and
to spare,
and I
perish with hunger!
I will arise
and go
to my father,
and
will say unto him,
Father,
I have sinned
against heaven,
and before thee,
And am
no more worthy
to be called thy son:
make me
as one of thy
hired servants.
And he arose,
and came
to his father.
But
when he
was yet
a great way off,
his father
saw him,
and had
compassion,
and ran,
and fell
on his neck,
and kissed him.
And the publican,
standing afar off,
would not lift
up so much as
his eyes
unto heaven,
but smote upon his breast,
saying,
God be merciful
to me a sinner.
I tell you,
this man
went down
to his house
justified rather than
the other:
for every one
that exalteth himself
shall be abased;
and he
that humbleth himself
shall be exalted.
And that repentance
and remission
of sins
should be preached in his name
among all nations,
beginning
at Jerusalem.
Then Peter
said unto them,
Repent,
and be baptized every one
of you
in the name
of Jesus Christ
for the remission
of sins,
and
ye shall receive
the gift
of the Holy Ghost.
And
with many other words
did
he testify
and exhort,
saying,
Save yourselves
from this
untoward generation.
Repent ye
therefore,
and be converted,
that your sins
may be blotted out,
when the times
of refreshing
shall come
from the presence
of the Lord.
Him hath God exalted
with his right hand to be
a Prince
and a Saviour,
for to give repentance
to Israel,
and forgiveness
of sins.
Repent therefore
of this thy wickedness,
and pray God,
if perhaps
the thought
of thine heart
may be forgiven thee.
And the times
of this ignorance
God winked at;
but now commandeth all men every
where to repent:
Testifying both
to the Jews,
and
also to the Greeks,
repentance
toward God,
and faith
toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
But shewed first
unto them
of Damascus,
and at Jerusalem,
and
throughout all
the coasts
of Judaea,
and
then
to the Gentiles,
that they
should repent
and turn to God,
and do
works
meet
for repentance.
Or despisest
thou the riches
of his goodness
and forbearance
and longsuffering;
not knowing
that the goodness
of God
leadeth thee
to repentance?
And they also,
if they
abide not
still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in:
for God
is able
to graff them
in again.
For it
is written,
As I live,
saith the Lord,
every knee
shall bow to me,
and every tongue
shall confess
to God.
For I am
the least
of the apostles,
that am not
meet to be called
an apostle,
because
I persecuted
the church
of God.
Now I rejoice,
not that
ye were made sorry,
but
that ye
sorrowed
to repentance:
for ye
were made sorry
after a godly manner,
that ye
might receive
damage by us
in nothing.
For godly
sorrow
worketh repentance
to salvation not
to be repented of:
but
the sorrow
of the world
worketh death.
For behold
this selfsame thing,
that ye
sorrowed
after a godly sort,
what
carefulness it
wrought
in you,
yea,
what clearing
of yourselves,
yea,
what indignation,
yea,
what fear,
yea,
what vehement desire,
yea,
what zeal,
yea,
what revenge!
In all things
ye have approved yourselves
to be
clear
in this matter.
Wherefore
he saith,
Awake
thou
that sleepest,
and arise
from the dead,
and Christ
shall give thee light.
In meekness
instructing
those that
oppose themselves;
if God peradventure
will give them repentance
to the acknowledging
of the truth;
Therefore leaving the principles
of the doctrine
of Christ,
let us
go on
unto perfection;
not laying again the foundation
of repentance
from dead works,
and of faith
toward God,
Draw nigh to God,
and
he will draw nigh
to you.
Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners;
and purify
your hearts,
ye double minded.
Be afflicted,
and mourn,
and weep:
let your laughter
be turned
to mourning,
and your joy
to heaviness.
Humble yourselves
in the sight
of the Lord,
and he
shall lift you up.
For ye
were as sheep going astray;
but are now returned
unto the Shepherd
and Bishop
of your souls.
If we
confess our sins,
he is faithful
and
just to forgive us
our sins,
and
to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
Remember therefore
from whence
thou art fallen,
and repent,
and do
the first works;
or else
I will come
unto thee quickly,
and will remove
thy candlestick
out of his place,
except thou repent.
Repent;
or else
I will come
unto thee quickly,
and will fight
against them
with the sword
of my mouth.
Be watchful,
and strengthen
the things
which remain,
that are ready
to die:
for I
have not found thy
works
perfect before God.
Remember therefore how
thou hast received
and heard,
and hold fast,
and repent.
If therefore
thou shalt not watch,
I will come
on thee
as a thief,
and
thou shalt not know
what hour
I will come upon thee.
As many
as I love,
I rebuke
and chasten:
be zealous therefore,
and repent.