The Anger of God is Averted Upon Confession of Sin and Repentance

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. …

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.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God. …

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” …

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. …