Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.-HOSEA xii. 6. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept Thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes.PSALM CXix. 67, 71. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.— HOSEA xiv. 1. For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved: in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.-ISAIAH xxx. 15. We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience: And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.-ROMANS v. 3-5. Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage ? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, He will have compassion: He will subdue our iniquities.— MICAH Vii. 18, 19, to last clause. Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God and the Lord will repent Him of the evil He hath pronounced against you.-JER. xxvi. 13. Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our days as of old.-LAM. v. 21. I have seen his ways and will heal him: I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him.-ISAIAH lvii. 18, to last clause. If ye turn unto Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them into the place that I have chosen to set My name there. -NEH. i. 9. |