Psalms 80:14

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

For Yahweh will judge his people and have compassion on his servants.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

“Yahweh says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’

All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.” ’

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away 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?’

‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up