Jeremiah 4:1

New American Bible - revised edition

If you return, Israel—oracle of the Lord— return to me. If you put your detestable things out of my sight, and do not stray,

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him: “Get rid of the foreign gods among you; then purify yourselves and change your clothes.

2 Kings 23:13

The king defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of the Destroyer, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built in honor of Astarte, the Sidonian horror, of Chemosh, the Moabite horror, and of Milcom, the Ammonites’ abomination.

2 Kings 23:24

Further, Josiah purged the consultation of ghosts and spirits, with the household gods, idols, and all the other horrors to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 15:8

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy (Oded the prophet), he was encouraged to remove the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had taken in the highlands of Ephraim, and to restore the altar of the Lord which was before the vestibule of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:8

I will no longer make Israel step out of the land I assigned to your ancestors, provided that they are careful to observe all I commanded them, the entire law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.

2 Chronicles 34:33

Josiah removed every abomination from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he obliged all who were in Israel to serve the Lord, their God. During his lifetime they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

Isaiah 31:6

Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted.

Jeremiah 15:19

Thus the Lord answered me: If you come back and I take you back, in my presence you shall stand; If you utter what is precious and not what is worthless, you shall be my mouth. Then they will be the ones who turn to you, not you who turn to them.

Jeremiah 15:4

And I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 18:11

And now, tell this to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am fashioning evil against you and making a plan. Return, all of you, from your evil way; reform your ways and your deeds.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all the places to which I will drive them.

Jeremiah 25:5

to this message: Turn back, each of you, from your evil way and from your evil deeds; then you shall remain in the land which the Lord gave you and your ancestors, from of old and forever.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, rebel Israel—oracle of the Lord— I will not remain angry with you; For I am merciful, oracle of the Lord, I will not keep my anger forever.

Jeremiah 3:14

Return, rebellious children—oracle of the Lord— for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city, two from a clan, and bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, rebellious children! I will heal your rebellions. “Here we are! We belong to you, for you are the Lord, our God.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time and again I sent you all my servants the prophets, saying: Turn away, each of you, from your evil way and reform your actions! Do not follow other gods to serve them that you may remain in the land which I gave you and your ancestors. But you did not pay attention. You did not obey me.

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps, if the house of Judah hears all the evil I have in mind to do to them, so that all of them turn from their evil way, then I can forgive their wickedness and their sin.

Jeremiah 4:4

Be circumcised for the Lord, remove the foreskins of your hearts, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Or else my anger will break out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 7:3

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Reform your ways and your deeds so that I may dwell with you in this place.

Jeremiah 7:5

Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor;

Jeremiah 7:7

only then will I let you continue to dwell in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors long ago and forever.

Ezekiel 11:18

They will enter it and remove all its atrocities and abominations.

Ezekiel 18:13

lends at interest and exacts usury—this son certainly shall not live. Because he practiced all these abominations, he shall surely be put to death; his own blood shall be on him.

Ezekiel 43:9

From now on, let them put their prostitution and the corpses of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever. The Law of the Temple.

Hosea 14:1

Samaria has become guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed to pieces, their pregnant women shall be ripped open.

Hosea 2:2

Then the people of Judah and of Israel will gather together; They will appoint for themselves one head and rise up from the land; great indeed shall be the day of Jezreel!

Hosea 7:16

They have again become useless, they have been like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now—oracle of the Lord— return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your ancestors to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me—oracle of the Lord.—

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol, an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 4:30

In your distress, when all these things shall have come upon you, you shall finally return to the Lord, your God, and listen to his voice.

Joshua 24:14

“Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve him completely and sincerely. Cast out the gods your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Judges 10:16

And they cast out the foreign gods from their midst and served the Lord, so that he grieved over the misery of Israel.

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel addressed the whole house of Israel: “If you would return to the Lord with your whole heart, remove your foreign gods and your Astartes, fix your hearts on the Lord, and serve him alone, then the Lord will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”