It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I shall make an atonement for your sin.
Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Therefore now mend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
Perhaps they will listen, and every man will turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.
Clothe yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the food offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
So the captain came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if perhaps God will think of us, so that we do not perish.
Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have obeyed his commands; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, have not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fortified: if indeed the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand off from you, and off from your gods, and off from your land.