Ezekiel 6:9
6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize
how I was crushed by their unfaithful
heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves
because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.
Leviticus 26:39-41
Restoration through Confession and Repentance
26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.
26:40 However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
26:41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,
Nehemiah 1:8-10
1:8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.
1:9 But if you repent
and obey
my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location,
I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
1:10 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.
Hosea 5:15
5:15 Then I will return again to my lair
until they have suffered their punishment.
Then they will seek me;
in their distress they will earnestly seek me.