12 And as soon as it caused him distress,+ he softened the face of Jehovah his God+ and kept humbling+ himself greatly because of the God of his forefathers.

7 Let the wicked man leave his way,+ and the harmful man his thoughts;+ and let him return to Jehovah, who will have mercy upon him,+ and to our God, for he will forgive in a large way.+

12 “And as for you, O son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous one will not itself deliver him in the day of his revolt.+ But as regards the wickedness of the wicked one, he will not be made to stumble by it in the day of his turning back from his wickedness.+ Nor will even anyone having righteousness be able to keep living because of it in the day of his sinning.+

19 “Repent,+ therefore, and turn around+ so as to get YOUR sins blotted out,+ that seasons* of refreshing+ may come from the person* of Jehovah*