Quotes About Repentance

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.

The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.

Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?

Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

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.

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ëOur gods!í to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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

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 devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

Blow the ramís horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ëWhere is their God?í”

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.