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Joel 2:12-17

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Even now — this is the  LORD’s declaration — turn to me with all your heart,  with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  Tear your hearts,  not just your clothes,  and return to the  LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.  Who knows? He may turn and relent  and leave a blessing behind him,  so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God.  Blow the ram’s horn in Zion!  Announce a sacred fast;  proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the people; sanctify the congregation;  assemble the aged;  , gather the infants, even babies nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom,  and the bride her honeymoon chamber. Let the priests,  the  LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar.  Let them say, “Have pity on your people,  LORD,  and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,  an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”

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Joel 2:12-17 - Even now — this is the  LORD’s declaration — turn to me with all your heart,  with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  Tear your hearts,  not just your clothes,  and return to the  LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.  Who knows? He may turn and relent  and leave a blessing behind him,  so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God.  Blow the ram’s horn in Zion!  Announce a sacred fast;  proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the people; sanctify the congregation;  assemble the aged;  , gather the infants, even babies nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom,  and the bride her honeymoon chamber. Let the priests,  the  LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar.  Let them say, “Have pity on your people,  LORD,  and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,  an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”Joel 2:12-17 - Even now — this is the  LORD’s declaration — turn to me with all your heart,  with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  Tear your hearts,  not just your clothes,  and return to the  LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.  Who knows? He may turn and relent  and leave a blessing behind him,  so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God.  Blow the ram’s horn in Zion!  Announce a sacred fast;  proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the people; sanctify the congregation;  assemble the aged;  , gather the infants, even babies nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom,  and the bride her honeymoon chamber. Let the priests,  the  LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar.  Let them say, “Have pity on your people,  LORD,  and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,  an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”Joel 2:12-17 - Even now — this is the  LORD’s declaration — turn to me with all your heart,  with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  Tear your hearts,  not just your clothes,  and return to the  LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.  Who knows? He may turn and relent  and leave a blessing behind him,  so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God.  Blow the ram’s horn in Zion!  Announce a sacred fast;  proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the people; sanctify the congregation;  assemble the aged;  , gather the infants, even babies nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom,  and the bride her honeymoon chamber. Let the priests,  the  LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar.  Let them say, “Have pity on your people,  LORD,  and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,  an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”Joel 2:12-17 - Even now — this is the  LORD’s declaration — turn to me with all your heart,  with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  Tear your hearts,  not just your clothes,  and return to the  LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.  Who knows? He may turn and relent  and leave a blessing behind him,  so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God.  Blow the ram’s horn in Zion!  Announce a sacred fast;  proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the people; sanctify the congregation;  assemble the aged;  , gather the infants, even babies nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom,  and the bride her honeymoon chamber. Let the priests,  the  LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar.  Let them say, “Have pity on your people,  LORD,  and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,  an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God? ’ ”

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