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A Call to Repentance

12 “And even now,” declares[a] Yahweh,
    “return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and wailing.”
13     Rend your hearts[b] and not your garments,
and return to Yahweh your God,
    because he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger[c] and great in loyal love,
    and relenting from harm.
14 Who knows whether he will turn and relent,
    and leave a blessing behind him,
an offering and a libation,
    for Yahweh your God?

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:12 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Joel 2:13 Hebrew “heart”
  3. Joel 2:13 Or “patient”; literally “long of anger”