Backsliders: Promises To

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— …

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, …

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple, …

For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents …

My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

…how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

…bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”

Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth. …

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. …

“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

…and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

I know your deeds. Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I know that you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.

I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! …