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Joel 2:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, so that you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God.

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Who knows?  God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.


Is there still seed left in the granary? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet produced. But from this day on I will bless you.’


Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.


Seek the Lord,  all you humble  of the earth, who carry out what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the  Lord’s anger.


The captain approached him and said, ‘What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god.  , Maybe this god will consider us,  and we won’t perish.’


Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


Perhaps the Lord your God  will hear  all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke  him for the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.” ’


He answered, ‘While the baby was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, “Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let him live.”


The following day Moses said to the people, ‘You have committed a grave sin. Now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I will be able to atone for your sin.’


instructing his opponents with gentleness.  Perhaps God will grant them repentance  leading them to the knowledge of the truth.


Hasn’t the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?


Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the  Lord; the priests, who are ministers of the  Lord, mourn.


The Lord says this: ‘As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes, and one says, “Don’t destroy it, for there’s some good  in it,” so I will act because of my servants and not destroy them all.


Make images of your tumours and of your mice that are destroying the land. Give glory to Israel’s God,  and perhaps he will stop oppressing you,  , your gods, and your land.


Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there,  as well as large fortified cities.  Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.’


Perhaps they will listen and turn #– #each from his evil way of life #– #so that I might relent  concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.


However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.


So now, correct your ways and deeds,  and obey the Lord your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.


Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction  and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.’





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