Zechariah 1:3

God's central appeal: 'Return to me, and I will return to you.' Genuine repentance is met with God's renewed nearness.

Cross-references · 26

• Jer 3:22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
• Mal 3:7From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
• Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
• Jer 4:1“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
• Deut 30:2–10and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
• Jer 12:15It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
• Isa 31:6Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
• Hos 6:1“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
• Jas 4:8–10Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Luke 15:18–22I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
• Ezek 33:11Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Jer 35:15I have sent also 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 doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
• Deut 4:30–31When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
• Jer 25:5saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.
• Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
• Jer 29:12–14You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Lam 3:39–41Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
• Mic 7:19–20He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Jer 3:12–14Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
• Hos 14:1Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• 2 Chr 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
• 1 Kgs 8:47–48yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
• Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• 2 Chr 30:6–9So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
• Neh 9:28But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

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