Joel 2:14
12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
- KJV
- Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
- WEB
- Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.
- ASV
- Who knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering unto Jehovah your God?
- DARBY
- Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God?
- BLB
- Who knows [if] He will turn and relent, and will leave behind Him a blessing—a grain offering and a drink offering for YHWH your⁺ God?
- ÅB
- Hvem vet? Han torde vende om og angre og la en velsignelse bli igjen etter seg, til matoffer og drikkoffer for Herren deres Gud.
- OTB
- Hvem vet? Han kan vende om og angre
og etterlate en velsignelse bak seg
—et grødeoffer og et drikkoffer
for Herren deres Gud. - B1930
- Hvem vet? Han torde vende om og angre og la en velsignelse bli igjen efter sig, til matoffer og drikkoffer for Herren eders Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Read in contextHaggai 2:19
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:22
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Read in context2 Kings 19:4
It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
Read in contextAmos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Read in contextJonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Read in contextZephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.
Read in contextJoel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
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