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Bible Verses About The Anger of God: Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance

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Verses on Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance

  1. Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.

  2. Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.

  3. And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies,

  4. I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe: conuert thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art the Lord my God.

  5. Surely after that I conuerted, I repented: and after that I was instructed, I smote vpon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, euen confounded, because I did beare the reproch of my youth.

  6. Is Ephraim my deare sonne or pleasant childe? yet since I spake vnto him, I still remembred him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I wil surely haue compassion vpon him, saith the Lord.

  7. Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,

  8. And rent your heart, and not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.

  9. Who knoweth, is he wil returne and repent and leaue a blessing behinde him, euen a meate offring, and a drinke offring vnto ye Lord your God?

  10. I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

  11. And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

  12. So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.