Joel 2:12 Cross References

Joel 2:12

12: That is why the LORD says, "Turn to me now, while there is time! Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Hosea 12:6

  1. So now, come back to your God! Act on the principles of love and justice, and always live in confident dependence on your God.

Isaiah 55:6

  1. Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
  2. Let the people turn from their wicked deeds. Let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

James 4:8

  1. Draw close to God, and God will draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, you hypocrites.
  2. Let there be tears for the wrong things you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.

Jeremiah 4:1

  1. "O Israel, come back to me," says the LORD. "If you will throw away your detestable idols and go astray no more,

2 Chronicles 7:13

  1. At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or I might command locusts to devour your crops, or I might send plagues among you.
  2. Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land.

Deuteronomy 4:29

  1. From there you will search again for the LORD your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him.
  2. "When those bitter days have come upon you far in the future, you will finally return to the LORD your God and listen to what he tells you.

Jonah 3:5

  1. The people of Nineveh believed God's message, and from the greatest to the least, they decided to go without food and wear sackcloth to show their sorrow.
  2. When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in sackcloth and sat on a heap of ashes.
  3. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: "No one, not even the animals, may eat or drink anything at all.
  4. Everyone is required to wear sackcloth and pray earnestly to God. Everyone must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.

Jeremiah 29:12

  1. In those days when you pray, I will listen.
  2. If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me.

Zechariah 1:3

  1. Therefore, say to the people, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD Almighty.'
  2. Do not be like your ancestors who would not listen when the earlier prophets said to them, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Turn from your evil ways and stop all your evil practices.'

Acts 26:20

  1. I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must turn from their sins and turn to God--and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

1 Samuel 7:6

  1. So they gathered there and, in a great ceremony, drew water from a well and poured it out before the LORD. They also went without food all day and confessed that they had sinned against the LORD. So it was at Mizpah that Samuel became Israel's judge.

Hosea 6:1

  1. "Come, let us return to the LORD! He has torn us in pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.

1 Samuel 7:3

  1. Then Samuel said to all the people of Israel, "If you are really serious about wanting to return to the LORD, get rid of your foreign gods and your images of Ashtoreth. Determine to obey only the LORD; then he will rescue you from the Philistines."

Lamentations 3:40

  1. Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn again in repentance to the LORD.
  2. Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say,

2 Chronicles 20:3

  1. Jehoshaphat was alarmed by this news and sought the LORD for guidance. He also gave orders that everyone throughout Judah should observe a fast.
  2. So people from all the towns of Judah came to Jerusalem to seek the LORD.

Zechariah 7:3

  1. They were to ask this question of the prophets and of the priests at the Temple of the LORD Almighty: "Should we continue to mourn and fast each summer on the anniversary of the Temple's destruction, as we have done for so many years?"

Nehemiah 9:1

  1. On October 31 the people returned for another observance. This time they fasted and dressed in sackcloth and sprinkled dust on their heads.
  2. Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners as they confessed their own sins and the sins of their ancestors.

Isaiah 22:12

  1. The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you to weep and mourn. He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear clothes of sackcloth to show your remorse.

Judges 20:26

  1. Then all the Israelites went up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD and fasted until evening. They also brought burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

Hosea 14:1

  1. Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.

2 Chronicles 6:38

  1. Then if they turn to you with their whole heart and soul and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors, toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,
  2. then hear their prayers from heaven where you live. Uphold their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

1 Kings 8:47

  1. But in that land of exile, they may turn to you again in repentance and pray, `We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.'
  2. Then if they turn to you with their whole heart and soul and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors, toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,
  3. then hear their prayers from heaven where you live. Uphold their cause

Zechariah 7:5

  1. "Say to all your people and your priests, `During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?

Zechariah 12:10

  1. "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.
  2. The sorrow and mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be like the grievous mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
  3. "All Israel will weep in profound sorrow, each family by itself, with the husbands and wives in separate groups. The family of David will mourn, along with the family of Nathan,
  4. the family of Levi, and the family of Shimei.
  5. Each of the surviving families from Judah will mourn separately, husbands and wives apart.
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