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Jeremiah 4:1

“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

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If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;

KJV

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
תָּשׁ֨וּבta.Shuvyou will returnH7725 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל׀Yis.ra.'ElO IsraelH3478 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֵלַ֖י'e.Laito meH413 →
תָּשׁ֑וּבta.Shuvyou will returnH7725 →
וְאִם־ve.'im-and ifH518 →
תָּסִ֧ירta.Siryou will removeH5493 →
שִׁקּוּצֶ֛יךָshi.ku.Tzei.chadetestable things yourH8251 →
מִפָּנַ֖יmi.pa.Naifrom before meH6440 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תָנֽוּד׃ta.Nudyou will waverH5110 →

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Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”Zechariah 1:3So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’Jeremiah 3:22“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.Genesis 35:2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.Ezekiel 43:9Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 25:5The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.2 Chronicles 30:6So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.1 Samuel 7:3Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.Hosea 2:2Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.2 Chronicles 33:8I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”Ephesians 4:22–31to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;2 Kings 23:24Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.2 Kings 23:13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.2 Chronicles 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.Judges 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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