Hos 5:15: «I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me,.. ,», #repentance, #sin, #God, #Hosea

Hos 6:3: «Let us know, let us press on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.»», #God, #Bible, #Hosea

Hos 6:4-6: «What shall I do with you, O E’phraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away. Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light. For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.», #Bible, #mercy,, #God, #righteousness, #Hosea

Ezek 36:22-23,32: «»Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. … It is not for your sake that I will act, says the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.», #God, #righteousness, #holyness, #Ezekiel

Ezek 18:32: «For I have no pleasure in the death of any one, says the Lord GOD; so turn, and live.»», #heaven, #hell, #God, #repentance, #solvation

Ezek 18:21-23: «»But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?», #repentance, #solvation, #God, #Ezekiel

Ezek 17:24: «And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.»»,#God, #mercy , #punishment, #Ezekiel

Ezek 14:3: «»Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; should I let myself be inquired of at all by them?», #praying, #God, #Ezekiel

Lam 3:34-37: «To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, to turn aside the right of a man in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve. Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?», #God, #judgment, #Jeremiah

Lam 3:37-39: «Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come? Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?», #God, #sin, #Jeremiah