Bible Verses About Repentance

For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, `Thou art a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'

For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants comforteth Himself.

Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'

Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

A remnant returneth--a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.

And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,