Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, said the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, said the LORD of hosts. Treasury of Scripture Turn. Deuteronomy 4:30,31 When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come on you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God... Deuteronomy 30:2-10 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children... 1 Kings 8:47,48 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent... 2 Chronicles 15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn to the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. 2 Chronicles 30:6-9 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah... Nehemiah 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you: therefore left you them in the land of their enemies... Isaiah 31:6 Turn you to him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near... Jeremiah 3:12-14,22 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, said the LORD... Jeremiah 4:1 If you will return, O Israel, said the LORD, return to me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight... Jeremiah 25:5 They said, Turn you again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings... Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying... Lamentations 3:39-41 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins... Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, said the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked... Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up. Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you... Luke 15:18-20 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you... James 4:8-10 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded... and Jeremiah 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again... Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you... Jeremiah 31:18-20 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke... Hosea 14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him. Micah 7:19,20 He will turn again, he will have compassion on us; he will subdue our iniquities... Luke 15:21,22 And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son...
Context Zechariah's Call to Repentance
1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2The LORD has been sore displeased with your fathers. 3Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, said the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, said the LORD of hosts. 4Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, said the LORD. 5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts.
Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.
King James Bible
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.
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