Yesaya 55:1-3

The Lord Gives an Invitation

55:1 “Hey,¹ all who are thirsty, come to the water!

You who have no money, come!

Buy and eat!

Come! Buy wine and milk

without money and without cost!²

55:2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you?³

Why spend⁴ your hard-earned money⁵ on something that will not satisfy?

Listen carefully⁶ to me and eat what is nourishing!⁷

Enjoy fine food!⁸

55:3 Pay attention and come to me!

Listen, so you can live!⁹

Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to¹⁰ you,

just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.¹¹

Yesaya 55:6-7

55:6 Seek the Lord while he makes himself available;¹²

call to him while he is nearby!

55:7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle¹³

and sinful people their plans.¹⁴

They should return¹⁵ to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them,¹⁶

and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.¹⁷

Yeremia 3:14

3:14 “Come back to me, my wayward sons,” says the Lord, “for I am your true master.¹⁸ If you do,¹⁹ I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.

Yehezkiel 18:27-30

18:27 When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life. 18:28 Because he considered²⁰ and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die. 18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

18:30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct,²¹ O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent²² and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity.²³

Yehezkiel 33:11

33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior²⁴ and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds!²⁵ Why should you die, O house of Israel?’

Hosea 14:1

Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance

14:1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,

for your sin has been your downfall!²⁶

Kisah Para Rasul 3:19

3:19 Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

Kisah Para Rasul 26:20

26:20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea,²⁷ and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God,²⁸ performing deeds consistent with²⁹ repentance.

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