Joel 2:12
Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
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,
Hosea 12:6
Return to your God. Constantly express loving kindness and justice. Always wait with hope in your God.
Deuteronomy 4:29-30
From there you will seek Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. And you will find him!
1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel told the entire nation of Israel: If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts you must get rid of the foreign gods you have, including the statues of the goddess Astarte. You must dedicate your lives to Jehovah and serve him only. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.
1 Samuel 7:6
The Israelites gathered at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of Jehovah and fasted that day. They confessed: We have sinned against Jehovah. So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.
Judges 20:26
The people of Israel went up to Bethel and mourned. They sat there in Jehovah's presence and fasted until evening. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole in the presence of Jehovah.
1 Kings 8:47-49
If they come to their senses and are sorry for what they have done, and plead with you in the land where they are captives, saying: We have sinned. We have done wrong. We have been wicked.
2 Chronicles 6:38-39
If they change their attitude toward you in the land where they are captives. If they pray to you toward the land that you gave their ancestors, and the city you have chosen, and the Temple I have built for your name,
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people.
2 Chronicles 20:3-4
Jehoshaphat was frightened and decided to ask for Jehovah's help. He announced a fast throughout Judah.
Nehemiah 9:1-2
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Jeremiah 29:12-13
Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me and I will hear you.
Lamentations 3:40-41
Let us search and put our ways to the test. Let us turn again to Jehovah.
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 14:1
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Jonah 3:5-8
The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Zechariah 1:3-4
Tell them, Jehovah of Hosts has said: Jehovah of Hosts says return to me and I will return to you.
Zechariah 7:3
Therefore speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and say to the prophets: Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?
Zechariah 7:5
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?
Zechariah 12:10-14
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.
Acts 26:20
I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds.
James 4:8-9
Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).