Jeremiah 8:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says: Do people fall and not get up again? If they turn away, do they not return?

Cross References

Proverbs 24:16

Though a righteous person falls seven times, he will get up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me,  my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will stand up; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

Hosea 6:1

Come, let’s return to the  Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Jeremiah 3:1

If  a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land  become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners   – can you return to me? This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the  Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.

Amos 5:2

She has fallen; Virgin Israel  will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land with no one to raise her up.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Hosea 7:10

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them,  , yet they do not return to the Lord their God, and for all this, they do not seek him.

Ezekiel 18:23

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? ’  This is the declaration of the Lord God. ‘Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

Isaiah 44:22

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

1 Kings 8:38

every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have – they each know their own affliction  ,  – as they spread out their hands towards this temple,

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity  and their sin.’

Jeremiah 23:14

Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom  to me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return,  Israel – this is the  Lord’s declaration – you will return to me, if you remove your abhorrent idols from my presence and do not waver,

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. ‘Here we are, coming to you, for you are the  Lord our God.