Quotes About Return

Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.

Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered,

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ëGet up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.í

But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

ëAlas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!í

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressorís sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.

And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.

Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

I will restore Egypt from captivity and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.

But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.

For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east,

who will invade the realm of the king of the South and then return to his own land.

The king of the North will return to his land with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant; so he will do damage and return to his own land.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ëI will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.í

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.