Zechariah 1:3

Modern English Version

so you will say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you all seek Him, He will be found with you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

2 Chronicles 15:4

but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

Nehemiah 9:28

“But after they had rest, they again did evil before You. Therefore You abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to You, You heard from heaven, and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; you will put away iniquity far from your tents.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn to Him whom you have deeply betrayed, O sons of Israel.

Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and your sins, as a cloud. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Jeremiah 12:15

It shall come to pass that after I have plucked them out, I will again have compassion on them, and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man to his land.

Jeremiah 25:5

They said, “Turn now again everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, O backsliding sons, and I will heal your backslidings. “Behold, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 35:15

I also have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Return now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land that I have given to you and to your fathers.” But you have not inclined your ear or obeyed Me.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you will return, O Israel, says the Lord, return to Me. And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, then you shall not be moved.

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should the son not bear the punishment of the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 18:32

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies, says the Lord God. Therefore, repent and live.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely, for My anger has turned away from him.

Hosea 6:1

Come, let us return to the Lord, for He has torn, and He will heal us. He has struck, and He will bind us up.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, declares the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts. But you say, “How shall we return?”