⁵ As birds hovering, so LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver. He will pass over and preserve. ⁶ Turn ye to him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O sons of Israel. ⁷ For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.

Phrases

Children of Israel

My People

People of Israel

Return to the Lord

Sons of Israel

To the Lord

Turn to the Lord

Names

Israel

Israelites

Cross References

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

2 Chronicles 33:9-16

And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than the nations did whom LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:14

Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 1:4-5

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward.

Isaiah 29:15

Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and, Who knows us?

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, thou heard not. Yea, thou knew not. Yea, from of old thine ear was not opened. For I knew that thou dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Jeremiah 5:23

But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.

Hosea 9:9

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.

Hosea 14:1-3

O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

Joel 2:12-13

Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

Acts 3:19

Repent ye therefore, and be converted in order to wipe away your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

Acts 26:20

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.