Lamentations 3:40

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Lamentations 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

"If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

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

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

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified.

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When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:

So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, "You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

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

Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Armies.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.