Let’s take a good look at the way we’re living. Let’s return to the Lord.

我们当深深考察自己的行为，再归向耶和华。

让我们省察，检讨自己的行为，归向耶和华吧！

让我们省察，检讨自己的行为，归向耶和华吧！

我们要省察自己的行为，重新归向耶和华。

我们要检讨和省察自己的行为，然后归向耶和华。

我們當深深考察自己的行為，再歸向耶和華。

讓我們省察，檢討自己的行為，歸向耶和華吧！

讓我們省察，檢討自己的行為，歸向耶和華吧！

我們要省察自己的行為，重新歸向耶和華。

我們要檢討和省察自己的行為，然後歸向耶和華。

我們來檢討考查行徑，回歸永恆主吧。

我儕其察己途、轉歸耶和華兮、

當省察我行、歸誠耶和華兮。

我儕當省察己行、歸誠於主、

Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!

Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord.

Let’s examine and probe our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Let’s examine and search out our ways, And let’s return to the Lord.

Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the Lord.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

Take a good look at yourselves to see if you are really believers. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Christ Jesus is in you? Unless, of course, you fail the test!

God, see what is in my heart. Know what is there. Test me. Know what I’m thinking.See if there’s anything in my life you don’t like. Help me live in the way that is always right.

The Lord announces to his people,“ Return to me with all your heart. There is still time. Do not eat any food. Weep and mourn.”Don’t just tear your clothes to show how sad you are. Let your hearts be broken. Return to the Lord your God. He is gracious. He is tender and kind. He is slow to get angry. He is full of love. He won’t bring his judgment. He won’t destroy you.

I have thought about the way I live. And I have decided to follow your covenant laws.

Tremble and do not sin. When you are in bed, look deep down inside yourself and be silent.

The Lord who rules over all says,“ Think carefully about how you are living.You have planted many seeds. But the crops you have gathered are small. So you eat. But you never have enough. You drink. But you are never full. You put on your clothes. But you are not warm. You earn your pay. But it will not buy everything you need.”He continues,“ Think carefully about how you are living.Go up into the mountains. Bring logs down. Use them to rebuild the temple, my house. Then I will enjoy it. And you will honor me,” says the Lord.“ You expected a lot. But you can see what a small amount it turned out to be. I blew away what you brought home. I’ll tell you why,” announces the Lord who rules over all.“ Because my temple is still destroyed. In spite of that, each one of you is busy with your own house.

Israel, return to the Lord your God. Your sins have destroyed you!Tell the Lord you are turning away from your sins. Return to him. Say to him,“ Forgive us for all our sins. Please be kind to us. Welcome us back to you. Then our lips will offer you our praise.Assyria can’t save us. We won’t trust in our war horses. Our own hands have made statues of gods. But we will never call them our gods again. We are like children whose fathers have died. But you show us your tender love.”

Let those who are evil stop doing evil things. And let them quit thinking evil thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord. The Lord will show them his tender love. Let them turn to our God. He is always ready to forgive.

Messengers went all through Israel and Judah. They carried letters from the king and his officials. The king had ordered them to do that. The letters said,“ People of Israel, return to the Lord. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Return to him. Then he will return to you who are left in the land. You have escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria.

The people say,“ Come. Let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces. But he will heal us. He has wounded us. But he’ll bandage our wounds.

Everyone should take a careful look at themselves before they eat the bread and drink from the cup.

Suppose you return to the Lord. Then those who captured your relatives and children will be kind to them. In fact, your relatives and children will come back to this land. The Lord your God is kind and tender. He won’t turn away from you if you return to him.”

All the things I’ve told you about might happen to you. And you will be in trouble. But later you will return to the Lord your God. You will obey him.

They think about all the evil things they have done. And they turn away from them. So you can be sure they will live. They will not die.

People of Jacob, you must return to your God. You must hold on to love and do what is fair. You must trust in your God always.

First I preached to people in Damascus. Then I preached in Jerusalem and in all Judea. And then I preached to the Gentiles. I told them to turn away from their sins to God. The way they live must show that they have turned away from their sins.

“ Someone might say to God,‘ I’m guilty of sinning, but I won’t do it anymore.Show me my sins that I’m not aware of. If I’ve done what is wrong, I won’t do it again.’

We should think more carefully about what we are doing. Then we would not be found guilty for this.

“ So commit yourself to God completely. Reach out your hands to him for help.Get rid of all the sin you have. Don’t let anything that is evil stay in your tent.Then, free of those things, you can face others. You can stand firm without being afraid.

And now he says to us,“ Return to me. Then I will return to you,” announces the Lord.“ Do not be like your people of long ago. The earlier prophets gave them my message. I said,‘ Stop doing what is evil. Turn away from your sinful practices.’ But they would not listen to me. They would not pay any attention,” announces the Lord.

He said to them,“ You are the leaders of the families of Levi. You and the other Levites must set yourselves apart to serve the Lord and his people. You must carry up the ark of the Lord. He is the God of Israel. Put the ark in the place I’ve prepared for it.Remember when the anger of the Lord our God broke out against us? That’s because it wasn’t you Levites who tried to carry up the ark the first time. We didn’t ask the Lord how to do it in the way the law requires.”