my people

Isaiah 63:19
We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

2 Chronicles 6:37-39
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly, ' . . .

2 Chronicles 33:12, 13, 18, 19
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. . . .

Leviticus 26:40, 41
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me-- . . .

Deuteronomy 4:29, 30
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul. . . .

Deuteronomy 30:1-6
When all these things come upon you--the blessings and curses I have set before you--and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, . . .

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'

James 4:9, 10
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. . . .

and pray

Acts 9:11
"Get up!" the Lord told him. "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

seek my face

Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob: 'Seek Me in a wasteland.' I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Lamentations 3:40, 41
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. . . .

turn from

Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Isaiah 55:6, 7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. . . .

Isaiah 59:20
"The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, " declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 18:27-30
But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. . . .

will I hear

2 Chronicles 6:27, 30, 39
may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance. . . .

heal their land

Psalm 60:2
You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Jeremiah 33:6
Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Jeremiah 51:9
"We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds."