Joel 2:12–18

¹²Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning; ¹³and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. ¹⁴Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God? ¹⁵Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly; ¹⁶gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet. ¹⁷Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

¹⁸Then Jehovah will be jealous for his land, and will have pity on his people.