“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
let 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.
“Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.”
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
“If you return, O Israel, declares the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver,
“Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
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