Verse 4

You shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do people fall and not get up? If they turn away, do they not return?’

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:16 : 16 For though the righteous may fall seven times, they will rise again, but the wicked will stumble in calamity.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has struck us down, but He will bind us up.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
  • Hos 7:10 : 10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, yet they do not return to the LORD their God or seek him in all this.
  • Hos 14:1 : 1 Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.
  • Amos 5:2 : 2 She has fallen, never to rise again—the virgin Israel; she is deserted on her land, with no one to lift her up.
  • 1 Kgs 8:38 : 38 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among all Your people Israel—being aware of the afflictions in their own hearts and spreading out their hands toward this house—
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have wiped away your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your waywardness. 'Here we are,' they reply, 'for you are the LORD our God.'
  • Jer 4:1 : 1 If Israel, declares the LORD, you will return to me, you must remove your detestable things from my presence and not wander away.
  • Jer 23:14 : 14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from their wickedness. They have all become to Me like Sodom, and the inhabitants like Gomorrah.
  • Jer 36:3 : 3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear about all the disaster I intend to bring upon them, so that each one may turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.
  • Ezek 18:23 : 23 Do I take pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?