Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back 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’s take a good look at the way we’re living. Let’s return to the Lord.

Let us test and examine our ways, and return 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.

Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

That is why the Lord says,“ Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.

I pondered the direction of my life, and I turned to follow your laws.

Don’t sin by letting anger control you. Think about it overnight and remain silent. Interlude

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!“ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord.You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down.Bring your confessions, and return to the Lord. Say to him,“ Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you our praises.Assyria cannot save us, nor can our warhorses. Never again will we say to the idols we have made,‘ You are our gods.’ No, in you alone do the orphans find mercy.”

Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

At the king’s command, runners were sent throughout Israel and Judah. They carried letters that said:“ O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he will return to the few of us who have survived the conquest of the Assyrian kings.

“ Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.

That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup.

“ For if you return to the Lord, your relatives and your children will be treated mercifully by their captors, and they will be able to return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful. If you return to him, he will not continue to turn his face from you.”

“ In the distant future, when you are suffering all these things, you will finally return to the Lord your God and listen to what he tells you.

They will live because they thought it over and decided to turn from their sins. Such people will not die.

So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.

I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must repent of their sins and turn to God— and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

“ Why don’t people say to God,‘ I have sinned, but I will sin no more’?Or‘ I don’t know what evil I have done— tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’?

But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.

“ If only you would prepare your heart and lift up your hands to him in prayer!Get rid of your sins, and leave all iniquity behind you.Then your face will brighten with innocence. You will be strong and free of fear.

Therefore, say to the people,‘ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.’Don’t be like your ancestors who would not listen or pay attention when the earlier prophets said to them,‘ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Turn from your evil ways, and stop all your evil practices.’

He said to them,“ You are the leaders of the Levite families. You must purify yourselves and all your fellow Levites, so you can bring the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.Because you Levites did not carry the Ark the first time, the anger of the Lord our God burst out against us. We failed to ask God how to move it properly.”