¹² “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
    ^(A)“return to me with all your heart,
^(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
¹³     and ^(C)rend your hearts and not ^(D)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
    ^(E)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
    ^(F)and he relents over disaster.
^14 (G)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
    and ^(H)leave a blessing behind him,
^(I)a grain offering and a drink offering
    for the Lord your God?

²⁵ I will restore^[a] to you the years
    that ^(A)the swarming locust has eaten,
^(B)the hopper, ^(C)the destroyer, and ^(D)the cutter,
    ^(E)my great army, which I sent among you.