and said to them, You [are] the heads of the families of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, and you shall carry up the ark of the God of Israel, [to the place] which I have prepared for it.

For because you were not [ready] at the first, our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.

For if you have made your heart pure, and lifted up [your] hands towards Him;

For thus shall your countenance shine again as pure water; and you shall divest yourself of uncleanness, and shall not fear.

For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received [blessings]; I will not take a pledge:

I will see apart from myself- show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so anymore.

Be angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what you say in your hearts. Pause.

I thought on Your ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;

and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.

and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

And now thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!

Thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!

You looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because My house is desolate, and you run everyone into his own house;

But let a man examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and drink from the cup.

For if we judge ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.

Scrutinize yourselves as to whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you are reprobates?

And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall hearken to His voice.

And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Judah, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped, [even] those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria.

For when you turn to the Lord, your brethren and your children shall be pitied before all that have carried them captives, and He will restore [you] to this land; for the Lord our God is merciful and gracious, and will not turn away His face from you, if we return to Him.

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.

You therefore shall return to your God. Keep mercy and judgment, and draw near to your God continually.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

Assyria shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan.

Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

and tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and relenting of evil.

And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn to Me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

And be not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they did not hear, nor heed Me, says the Lord.

but to those first in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, proclaiming that they must repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.