Joel 2:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:10

But afterward, David was stricken to the heart because he had numbered the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, I pray you, take away the guilt of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

2 Chronicles 30:6

So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 6:27

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’ ”

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Isaiah 58:4

You fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness. “Here we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 36:7

It may be that their plea will come before the Lord and that all of them will turn from their evil ways, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you return to me, if you remove your abominations from my presence and do not waver,

Jeremiah 4:2

and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!” in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall be blessed by you, and by you they shall boast.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God; hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Hosea 12:7

A trader in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let us return to the Lord, for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Zechariah 7:3

and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Zechariah 7:5

“Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

Malachi 1:9

And now implore the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. The fault is yours. Will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Judges 20:26

Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went back to Bethel and wept, sitting there before the Lord; they fasted that day until evening. Then they offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 7:6

So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.