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Rend Your Hearts and Not Your Garments[a]

12 Yet even now, says the Lord,
    return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:12 The moment has come to cry out to God; however, the collective liturgy must not be an external rite but rather must signify a collective movement of conversion. The Lord regards the inner part of humans rather than their outward appearances.