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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 times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

  2. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

  3. And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

  4. ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

  5. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

  6. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

  7. ¶ Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

  8. And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

  9. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

  10. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

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

  12. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.