This is what the Lord says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place.”

Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them: The Lord will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth. … See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins.

When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near; and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, “We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly”; and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their fathers, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name; then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you.

Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

Is 18:4; Je 25:30, Is 26:21; 2Ch 6:36-39; 1Ki 8:30

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