Quotes about Renewal
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
— Hosea 2:3
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
— Hosea 2:14
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
— Hosea 2:15
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
— Hosea 6:1
After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
— Hosea 6:2
Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
— Hosea 14:2
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
— Hosea 14:5
His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
— Hosea 14:6
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
— Joel 1:19
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
— Joel 2:12
Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.
— Joel 2:22
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
— Joel 2:25