and he said to them, You are the heads of the fathers of the Levites; consecrate yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

For because you did not do it the first time, Jehovah our God has burst out against us, because we had not inquired of Him concerning the ordinance.

If you have prepared your heart, and spread out your hands toward Him;

Then surely you shall lift up your face without blemish; yea, you shall be steadfast, and not fear;

For has anyone said to the Mighty God, I have endured; I will offend no more;

teach me what I do not see; if I have done injustice, I will do no more?

Tremble, and sin not; commune within your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

I have considered my ways, and turned my feet unto Your Testimonies.

Search me, O Mighty God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties;

and find out if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.

Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he had done, he shall live life; he shall not die.

And now, thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little. And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why? says Jehovah of Hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, and you, each man, runs to his own house.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For if we would discern ourselves, we would not be judged.

Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know, yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you; unless indeed you are ones failing the test?

When you are in distress, and all these things have come upon you in the latter days; then when you have returned unto Jehovah your God and have obeyed His voice

And the runners went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the king and his rulers, and spoke according to the command of the king: O Children of Israel, return unto Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; then He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

For if you return to Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before those holding them captive, to come back to this land; for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

Therefore return to your God; keep kindness and justice, and wait for your God continually.

O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.

Yet even now turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning, declares Jehovah.

So, tear your heart, and not your garments; and return to Jehovah your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He has compassion concerning the evil.

Therefore say to them, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Do not be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed, saying, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear nor heed Me, says Jehovah.

but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.