Catholic Public Domain Version
"Now, therefore, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.” "
— Joel 2:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:”
“Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: ”
“"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."”
“An Appeal for Repentance“Yet even now,” the LORD says,“return to me with all your heart– with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
“Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning.”
“But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:”
“Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:”
They will advance into the city; they will rush through the wall. They will scale the houses; they will go in through the windows, like a thief.
Before their face, the earth has trembled, the heavens have been moved. The sun and moon have been obscured, and the stars have retracted their splendor.
And the Lord has bestowed his voice before the face of his army. For its military camps are very numerous; for they are strong and they carry out his word. For the day of the Lord is great and so very terrible, and who can withstand it?
Now, therefore, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.”
And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.
Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly.