⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

⁵ Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.

⁵⁹ I considered my ways, And turned my steps to your statutes.

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

²⁴ See if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

¹³ "If you set your heart aright, Stretch out your hands toward him.

¹⁴ If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

¹⁵ Surely then shall you lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

⁶ So the posts 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 that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

³ Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Hosts.

⁴ Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

²⁰ but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

³¹ For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

⁵ Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

⁶ You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

⁷ This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: "Consider your ways.

⁸ Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

⁹ "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Hosts, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

¹² "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

¹³ Tear your heart, and not your garments, And turn to Yahweh, your God; For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, And relents from sending calamity.

¹ Israel, return to Yahweh your God; For you have fallen because of your sin.

² Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, And accept that which is good: So we offer like bulls our lips.

³ Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' For in you the fatherless finds mercy."

³⁰ When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:

⁹ For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.

³¹ "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

³² Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

⁴ Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

⁷ let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

²⁸ Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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.

⁶ Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.

¹² and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.

¹³ For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.