Quotes About Repentance

With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,

before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORDís anger comes upon you.

Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

I said, ëSurely you will fear Me and accept correction.í Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëReturn to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.í

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëTurn now from your evil ways and deeds.í But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ëJust as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.í”

but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.í

by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ëWhen you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

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, ëHow can we return?í

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ëWhat have we spoken against You?í

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

John wore a garment of camelís hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.