New Revised Standard Version
He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Contemporary English Version
then he warns them to turn back to him.

New American Bible
He opens their ears to correction and tells them to turn back from evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

openeth

Job 36:15 He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

Job 33:16-23 Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn. . . .

Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

Isaiah 48:8,17 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb. . . .

Isaiah 50:5 The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.

Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.

commandeth

Proverbs 1:22,23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words. . . .

Proverbs 8:4,5 O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice. . . .

Proverbs 9:4-6 Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you. . . .

Isaiah 1:16-20 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, . . .

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Jeremiah 4:3,4 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns: . . .

Jeremiah 7:3-7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place. . . .

Ezekiel 18:30,31 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. . . .

Hosea 14:1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

Acts 3:19 Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

Acts 17:30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.