¹² “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

¹³ and rend your hearts and not your garments.”Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;  and he relents over disaster.
¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?

¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;
¹⁶ gather the people. Consecrate the congregation;     assemble the elders;
gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.

¹⁷ Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach,  a byword among the nations.^[a]Why should they say among the peoples,   ‘Where is their God?’”

¹⁸ Then the Lord became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

¹⁹ The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

Luke: 6:27-38