announcing the future day when the nation would return to the land and their exile would be reversed. For example in 520 BC the prophet Zechariah delivered this word from Yahweh to the exiled people of God, Therefore say to them, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Return [Heb shuv] to Me,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘that I may return to you,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 1:3). He was calling on the nation to admit their sin and turn from it. Turning from sin does not equal repentance; instead it