Repentance and Revival Bible Verses
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 02/04/2015
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So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
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I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
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we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.
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We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
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“Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.
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We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, LORD, because we have sinned against you.
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The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him;
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we have not obeyed the LORD our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.
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Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the LORD my God
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and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
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From the days of our ancestors until now, our guilt has been great. Because of our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation at the hand of foreign kings, as it is today.
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Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’—when the LORD has not spoken.
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The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
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“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.
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So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD’s sight and so arousing his anger.
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I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me.
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And the LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too.
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I lay prostrate before the LORD those forty days and forty nights because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
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I prayed to the LORD and said, “Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.
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Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’
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But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.”
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But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
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Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
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Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’ ”
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So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.
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But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
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The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
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Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.
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They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
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When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
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Then I said: “LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
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let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.
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We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.
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“Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
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but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’
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“They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.
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Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.” I was cupbearer to the king.
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Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
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All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,
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Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
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LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
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For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’
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Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
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Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
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I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.’ ”
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The word of the LORD came to me:
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“ ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
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Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
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They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
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This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
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and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.
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Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.
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“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
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None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live.
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Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
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“But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
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“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
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If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die.
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But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.
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Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die.
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Yet the Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
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“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
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Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel?
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For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
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So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the LORD. “Your children will return to their own land.
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“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God.
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After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
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Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
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After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
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He led Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.
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He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.
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He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.
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When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
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Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the LORD and no longer served him,
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he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,
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who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
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The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.
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Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”
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The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
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the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?
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But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
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Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”
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But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”
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Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the LORD. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.
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When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
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The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.”
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The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.
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Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
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The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree— all the trees of the field—are dried up. Surely the people’s joy is withered away.
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Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
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Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
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Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods.The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
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How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
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To you, LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
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Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.
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Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
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When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
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I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
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“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
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Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
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“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
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And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
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But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
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For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
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And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
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I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
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After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
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This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
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the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying, “Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,’ says the LORD.
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Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
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Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.
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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old
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“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.
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He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”
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Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.
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Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
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Restore us, LORD God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.