Bible Verses About Repentance

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments

that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.

Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?

O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”

but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.