'Return' in the Bible

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes," declares the Lord.

But you must return to your God.Maintain love and justice,and always put your hope in God.

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Take words of repentance with youand return to the Lord.Say to Him: “Forgive all our sinand accept what is good,so that we may repay Youwith praise from our lips.

They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,“Return to Me with all your heart,And with fasting, weeping and mourning;

Tear your hearts,not just your clothes,and return to the Lord your God.For He is gracious and compassionate,slow to anger, rich in faithful love,and He relents from sending disaster.

Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

I gave you absolutely nothing to eatin all your cities,a shortage of food in all your communities,yet you did not return to Me.This is the Lord’s declaration.

Two or three cities staggeredto another city to drink waterbut were not satisfied,yet you did not return to Me.This is the Lord’s declaration.

I struck you with blight and mildew;the locust devouredyour many gardens and vineyards,your fig trees and olive trees,yet you did not return to Me.This is the Lord’s declaration.

I sent plagues like those of Egypt;I killed your young men with the sword,along with your captured horses.I caused the stench of your campto fill your nostrils,yet you did not return to Me.This is the Lord’s declaration.

I overthrew some of youas I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,and you were like a burning sticksnatched from a fire,yet you did not return to Me—this is the Lord’s declaration.

For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

However, the men rowed desperately to return to land but they could not, for the sea was becoming even stormier against them.

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

Lately my people have acted like an enemy you strip travelers who thought they were as secure as those who return from war.

Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,Now her inhabitants are fleeing;“Stop! Stop!” [a few cry,]But no one turns back.

The coastland will belongto the remnant of the house of Judah;they will find pasture there.They will lie down in the eveningamong the houses of Ashkelon,for the Lord their God will return to themand restore their fortunes.

This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts.

Indeed, then I will return my people to a pure language so that they all may call upon the name of the LORD, serving him with a united will.

I punished you and everything that you undertook with scorching wind, with mildew, and with hail, and you still did not return to me,' declares the LORD.

So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed to Me,” declares the Lord.

Therefore thus says the Lord, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’

‘What are you, O great mountain [of obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who will rebuild the temple] you will become a plain (insignificant)! And he will bring out the capstone [of the new temple] with loud shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’”

The Lord says this: “I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, and the Holy Mountain.”

And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of those that pass by and that return; and the exactor shall not pass through them any more: for now have I seen it with mine eyes.

Return to a stronghold,you prisoners who have hope;today I declare that I will restore double to you.

Though I sow them among the nations,they will remember Me in the distant lands;they and their children will live and return.

Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."