Nehemiah 1:9
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9 But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon,[a] I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”(A)
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- 1:9 Lit skies
Isaiah 44:22
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22 I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,(A)
and your sins like a mist.
Return to me,(B)
for I have redeemed you.(C)
Jeremiah 3:7
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7 I thought, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to me.’(A) But she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah(B) saw it.
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Jeremiah 3:10
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10 Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart(A)—only in pretense.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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Jeremiah 24:7
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7 I will give them a heart to know me,(A) that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God because they will return to me with all their heart.(B)
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Amos 4:6-11
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God’s Discipline and Israel’s Apostasy
6 I gave you absolutely nothing to eat[a](A) in all your cities,
a shortage of food in all your communities,
yet you did not return to me.(B)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
7 I also withheld the rain from you(C)
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.(D)
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.(E)
8 Two or three cities staggered
to another city to drink water(F)
but were not satisfied,(G)
yet you did not return(H) to me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
9 I struck you with blight and mildew;(I)
the locust devoured(J)
your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees,(K)
yet you did not return to me.(L)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
10 I sent plagues like those of Egypt;(M)
I killed your young men with the sword,(N)
along with your captured horses.(O)
I caused the stench of your camp
to fill your nostrils,(P)
yet you did not return to me.(Q)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
11 I overthrew some of you
as I[b] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,(R)
and you were like a burning stick
snatched from a fire,(S)
yet you did not return to me(T)—
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Malachi 3:7
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Robbing God
7 “Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them.(A) Return to me,(B) and I will return to you,”(C) says the Lord of Armies.
Yet you ask, “How can we return?”
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