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Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

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ASV

Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

KJV

Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
עַתָּה֙'a.TahnowH6258 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
שֻׁ֥בוּShu.vureturnH7725 →
עָדַ֖י'a.Daito meH5704 →
בְּכָל־be.kholwith allH3605 →
לְבַבְכֶ֑םle.vav.Khemheart yourH3824 →
וּבְצ֥וֹםu.ve.Tzomand with fastingH6685 →
וּבְבְכִ֖יu.ve.ve.Khiand with weepingH1065 →
וּבְמִסְפֵּֽד׃u.ve.mis.Pedand with wailingH4553 →

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Jeremiah 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.James 4:8–9Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.Hosea 12:6But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.2 Chronicles 7:13–14If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,Jeremiah 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.Jeremiah 4:1“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.Deuteronomy 4:29–30But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.Jonah 3:5–8And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.1 Samuel 7:6When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.Zechariah 1:3–4So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’Lamentations 3:40–41Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.1 Samuel 7:3Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”Nehemiah 9:1–2On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.Judges 20:26Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

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