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Zechariah 1:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So tell the people, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: Return to me #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #and I will return to you, says the Lord of Armies.

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‘Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them.  Return to me,  and I will return to you,’  says the Lord of Armies. Yet you ask, ‘How can we return? ’


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


Even now – this is the  Lord’s declaration – turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.


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,


After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion  on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.


Return to the one the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.


I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for my anger will have turned from him.


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.


Tell them, “As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live.  Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel? ”


Time and time again  I have sent you all my servants the prophets, proclaiming, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way,  and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them.  Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.’ But you did not pay attention or obey me.


He announced, “Turn, each of you, from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds.  Live in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors long ago and for ever.


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


But as soon as they had relief, they again did what was evil in your sight. So you abandoned them to the power of their enemies, who dominated them. When they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven and rescued them many times in your compassion.


but when they turned to the Lord God of Israel in their distress and sought him, he was found by them.


If you return  to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent


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


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.


But you may ask, “Why doesn’t the son suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity? ”  Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all my statutes, he will certainly live.


So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you  when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you,  but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.


Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.  Why should you die, house of Israel?


For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God. ‘So repent and live!





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