Joel 2:12-17 - Heartlight

¹²“Yet even now,”

declares the LORD,

“return to Me with all your heart,

with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

¹³So rend your hearts and not your garments,

and return to the LORD your God.

For He is gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

And He relents from sending disaster.

¹⁴Who knows? He may turn and relent

and leave a blessing behind Him —

grain and drink offerings

for the LORD your God.

¹⁵Blow the ram’s horn in Zion,

consecrate a fast,

proclaim a sacred assembly.

¹⁶Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,

assemble the aged, gather the children,

even those nursing at the breast.

Let the bridegroom leave his room,

and the bride her chamber.

¹⁷Let the priests who minister before the LORD

weep between the portico and the altar,

saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD,

and do not make Your heritage a reproach,

an object of scorn among the nations.

Why should they say among the peoples,

‘Where is their God?’”

— Joel 2:12-17

(BSB)

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