1705 verses about Repentance

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.

Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.