(A)And the people of Nineveh believed God. (B)They called for a fast and (C)put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

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32 (A)The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and (B)condemn it, for (C)they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, (D)something greater than Jonah is here.

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41 (A)The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and (B)condemn it, for (C)they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, (D)something greater than Jonah is here.

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Return to the Lord

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?

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

17 (O)Between the (P)vestibule and the (Q)altar
    (R)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]
(S)Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’”

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:17 Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

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14 (A)Consecrate a fast;
    (B)call a solemn assembly.
Gather (C)the elders
    and (D)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

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Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face (A)to seek the Lord, and (B)proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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By Faith

11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of (A)things not seen.

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18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. 19 Now therefore send, (A)get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”’” 20 Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses, 21 but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

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By faith (A)Noah, being warned by God concerning (B)events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of (C)the righteousness that comes by faith.

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25 So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

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10 They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, (A)“This man is the power of God that is called (B)Great.”

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Then he summoned (A)Johanan the son of Kareah and (B)all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people (C)from the least to the greatest,

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Warning Against Going to Egypt

42 Then (A)all the commanders of the forces, and (B)Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of (C)Hoshaiah, and all the people (D)from the least to the greatest, came near

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(A)In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, (B)in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem (C)proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

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34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ (A)for they shall all know me, (B)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For (C)I will forgive their iniquity, and (D)I will remember their sin no more.”

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Fasting and Prayer for Protection

21 (A)Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river (B)Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, (C)to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

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