When you ignore them, they panic. ¹  When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. ¹  Come back to me, for I protect ²  you.”

The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!

They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.

‘After this ¹  I ²  will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent ³  of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore ⁴  it,

Messengers ¹  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: ²  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ³  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ⁴ 

Then I will teach ¹  rebels your merciful ways, ²  and sinners will turn ³  to you.

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? ¹  Have pity on your servants! ² 

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, ¹  but it did not return to him this time. ² 

In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

All Israel rose up in unison ¹  and said, “Not one of us will go home! ²  Not one of us will return ³  to his house!

Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged ¹  Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.

So David and his men got up early in the morning to return ¹  to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

before the sun and the light ¹  of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear ²  after the rain;

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. ¹  Say, ²  ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem ¹  continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. ²  They refuse to turn back to me. ³ 

Then the king of the north ¹  will advance against the empire of the king of the south, but will withdraw to his own land.

After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, ¹  they went back by another route to their own country.

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹