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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 He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

  2. And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

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

  4. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

  5. For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

  6. A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  7. And also now--an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.

  8. And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful is He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.

  9. Who knoweth--He doth turn back, Yea--He hath repented, And He hath left behind Him a blessing, A present and libation of Jehovah your God?

  10. having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,

  11. and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

  12. `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;