1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Hosea 6:1
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Jeremiah 3:21–23
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Hosea 14:1–3
1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. 2 Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips. 3 Assyria will not save us…
Joel 2:12–14
12 “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” 13 So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving dev…
Lamentations 5:20–22
20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long? 21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, 22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
Lamentations 3:39–41
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Isaiah 55:6–8
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. 8 “For My thoug…
Psalms 85:3–5
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Job 5:17–19
17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. 18 For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal. 19 He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
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