20 Go, my people, enter your inner rooms,

And shut your doors behind you.+

Hide yourself for a brief moment

Until the wrath* has passed by.+

12 “Yet even now,” declares Jehovah, “return to me with all your hearts,+

With fasting+ and weeping and wailing.

14 Who knows whether he will turn back and reconsider*+

And leave behind a blessing,

A grain offering and a drink offering for Jehovah your God?

15 Hate what is bad, and love what is good,+

Let justice prevail in the city gate.+

It may be that Jehovah the God of armies

Will show favor to the remaining ones of Joseph.’+