Jeremiah 3:12
Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.
Psalm 86:15
But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He led the Israelites away to Assyria. He stationed them in Halah and Habor on the Gozan River, and in the towns of the Medes.
Psalm 86:5
You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.
Jeremiah 3:5
Will you hold a grudge forever? Will you always be angry? You have said and done all the evil things that you could.
Jeremiah 3:18
Then the nation of Judah will live with the nation of Israel. They will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave their ancestors as their own inheritance.
Jeremiah 3:22
Return you backsliding children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful. See, we have come to you because you are Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 31:20
Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 33:26
then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant. And I would not take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their prosperity and will show them love and compassion.'
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
From there you will seek Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. And you will find him!
Deuteronomy 30:2
If you and your children return to Jehovah your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your being, doing everything I command you today,
2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglathpileser king of Assyria captured Ijon and Abelbethmaacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali. He took the people captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 17:23
Jehovah removed Israel from his sight as he said he would through all his servants the prophets. Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.
2 Kings 18:1
Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah. It was in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:9
If you return to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. Jehovah your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face away from you if you return to him.
Psalm 79:5
How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire?
Psalm 103:8
Jehovah is merciful and gracious. He is slow to anger, and rich in loving-kindness.
Psalm 103:17
But the loving kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who reverence him, and his righteousness is to the sons of sons.
Psalm 145:8
Jehovah is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in loving-kindness.
Proverbs 28:13
The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.
Isaiah 44:22
I have swept your sins away like a cloud. Come back to me! I am the one who saves you.
Jeremiah 3:1
It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:7
I thought that after she had done all this she would come back to me. But she did not come back, and her treacherous (unstable) (unreliable) (false) sister Judah saw her.
Jeremiah 3:14
Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.'
Jeremiah 4:1
Jehovah says: If you come back, Israel, if you come back to me, if you take your disgusting idols out of my sight and you do not stray from me,
Jeremiah 23:8
Instead, 'Jehovah lives, the one who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the northland and from all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil.'
Jeremiah 30:11
I am with you. I will rescue you, declares Jehovah. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished.
Jeremiah 31:8
I am bringing them from the North Country. I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth. Among them are the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child. As a great company they will return here.
Ezekiel 39:25
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'Now I will bring back Jacob's captives and have compassion for the whole nation of Israel. I will stand up for (show exclusive devotion for) my holy name.
Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.
Hosea 11:8-9
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me. All my compassion is aroused.
Hosea 14:1-3
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).
Romans 5:20-21
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.