6 So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, xreturn to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped yfrom the hand of the kings of Assyria.
22 I have jblotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
jI will not be angry forever.
40 Let us test and examine our ways,
and ureturn to the Lord!
Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
1 “Come, xlet us return to the Lord;
for he has ytorn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will zbind us up.
A Plea to Return to the Lord
1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have kstumbled because of your iniquity.
3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: cReturn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. wReturn to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. xBut you say, ‘How shall we return?’
