Quotes About Turning

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.í

When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëSurely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.

Say to them: ëAs surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?í

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel.

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.

Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many of them. But a commander will put an end to his reproach and will turn it back upon him.

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

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

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

For this peopleís heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.í

Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”