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Isaiah 26:16
LORD, they went to you in their distress; they poured out whispered prayers because your discipline fell on them.
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Psalms 78:34
When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God.
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.I will be found by you”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you”— this is the LORD’s declaration.“ I will restore you to the place from which I deported you.”
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Deuteronomy 4:29-31
But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them by oath, because the LORD your God is a compassionate God.
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Leviticus 26:40-42
“ But when they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors— their unfaithfulness that they practiced against me, and how they acted with hostility toward me,and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies— and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,then I will remember my covenant with Jacob. I will also remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
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Jeremiah 2:27
say to a tree,“ You are my father,” and to a stone,“ You gave birth to me.” For they have turned their back to me and not their face, yet in their time of disaster they beg,“ Rise up and save us!”
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Psalms 50:15
Call on me in a day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor me.”
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Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed me. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Luke 13:25
once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying,‘ Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you,‘ I don’t know you or where you’re from.’
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Isaiah 26:9
I long for you in the night; yes, my spirit within me diligently seeks you, for when your judgments are in the land, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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Isaiah 26:21
For look, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal the blood shed on it and will no longer conceal her slain.
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the LORD and to his goodness in the last days.
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Ezekiel 6:9
Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable actions of every kind.
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Ezekiel 36:31
“‘ You will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and detestable practices.
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Hosea 14:1-3
Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.Take words of repentance with you and return to the LORD. Say to him,“ Forgive all our iniquity and accept what is good, so that we may repay you with praise from our lips.Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim,‘ Our gods!’ to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”
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Ezekiel 8:6
He said to me,“ Son of man, do you see what they are doing here— more detestable acts that the house of Israel is committing— so that I must depart from my sanctuary? You will see even more detestable acts.”
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Ezekiel 11:23
The glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stopped on the mountain east of the city.
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Deuteronomy 30:1-3
“ When all these things happen to you— the blessings and curses I have set before you— and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,and you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am commanding you today,then he will restore your fortunes, have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.
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Psalms 83:16
Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, LORD.
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,“ You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, LORD, are my God.After my return, I felt regret; After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, my inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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1 Kings 8 47-1 Kings 8 48
and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land:“ We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,
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Job 27:8-10
For what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?Will God hear his cry when distress comes on him?Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times?
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Daniel 9:4-12
I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: Ah, Lord— the great and awe-inspiring God who keeps his gracious covenant with those who love him and keep his commands—we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from your commands and ordinances.We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, leaders, ancestors, and all the people of the land.Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel— those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where you have banished them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward you.LORD, public shame belongs to us, our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, because we have sinned against you.Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against himand have not obeyed the LORD our God by following his instructions that he set before us through his servants the prophets.All Israel has broken your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against him.He has carried out his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us a disaster that is so great that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.
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Judges 10:10-16
so they cried out to the LORD, saying,“ We have sinned against you. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”The LORD said to the Israelites,“ When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, did I not deliver you from them?But you have abandoned me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again.Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you whenever you are oppressed.”But the Israelites said,“ We have sinned. Deal with us as you see fit; only rescue us today!”So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.
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Nehemiah 1:8-9
Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses:“ If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”
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2 Chronicles 6 36-2 Chronicles 6 37
When they sin against you— for there is no one who does not sin— and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to a distant or nearby country,and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land, saying,“ We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”
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Exodus 25:21-22
Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark.I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
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2 Chronicles 7 14
and my people, who bear my name, humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
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Judges 6:6-7
So Israel became poverty-stricken because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.When the Israelites cried out to him because of Midian,
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Ezekiel 20:43
There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourself, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil things you have done.
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Proverbs 1:27-28
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.
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1 Kings 8 10-1 Kings 8 13
When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the LORD’s temple,and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple.Then Solomon said: The LORD said that he would dwell in total darkness.I have indeed built an exalted temple for you, a place for your dwelling forever.
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Micah 1:3
Look, the LORD is leaving his place and coming down to trample the heights of the earth.
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Hosea 5:6
They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD but do not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
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Isaiah 64:5-9
You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right; they remember you in your ways. But we have sinned, and you were angry. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity.Yet LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands.LORD, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look— all of us are your people!
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Job 33:27
He will look at men and say,“ I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
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Ezekiel 10:4
Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherub to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the LORD’s glory.
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Psalms 132:14
“ This is my resting place forever; I will make my home here because I have desired it.
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Zephaniah 2:1-3
Gather yourselves together; gather together, undesirable nation,before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning of the LORD’s anger overtakes you, before the day of the LORD’s anger overtakes you.Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the LORD’s anger.
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2 Chronicles 33 12-2 Chronicles 33 13
When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.He prayed to him, and the LORD was receptive to his prayer. He granted his request and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the LORD is God.
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Judges 4:3
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.
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Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who search for me find me.
