Joel 2:12

A Call To Repentance

¹¹ And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it? ¹² But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow: ¹³ Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.

Says the Lord

With All Your Heart

Declares The Lord

Jehovah

Joel

Jeremiah 4:1

If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

Hosea 12:6

So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

Deuteronomy 4:29-30

But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 7:6

So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.

Judges 20:26

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

1 Kings 8:47-49

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

2 Chronicles 6:38-39

If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

2 Chronicles 7:13-14

If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

2 Chronicles 20:3-4

Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

Nehemiah 9:1-2

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Isaiah 55:6-7

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Jeremiah 29:12-13

And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

Lamentations 3:40-41

Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

Hosea 6:1

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

Jonah 3:5-8

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

Zechariah 1:3-4

And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

Zechariah 7:3

And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

Zechariah 7:5

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

Zechariah 12:10-14

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

Acts 26:20

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

James 4:8-9

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.