The Lover to His Beloved: (7:1) Turn, turn, O Perfect One! Turn, turn, that I may stare at you! The Beloved to Her Lover: Why do you gaze upon the Perfect One like the dance of the Mahanaim?

When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”

The Lord says, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

He said, “Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe – there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status, Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status, and you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.

From the days of your ancestors you have ignored my commandments and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

“If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

So Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law back home!”

I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

The Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?

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

But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands and to their own country.