Quotes About Repentance

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potterís jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.í”

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.í”

The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.í”

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

The prophets told you, ëTurn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

ëBut to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,í declares the LORD, ëso you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.í

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëBecause you have not obeyed My words,

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëDrink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.í

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëI am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.í”

this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.í

And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.

But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.