Joel 2:12

Therefore also now, saith Hashem, 1 turn ye back to Me with all your lev, 1 and with tzom, and with weeping, and with mourning; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

In Context

11And Hashem shall utter His voice before His army; 1 His machaneh (camp) is very great; 1 for the executor of His devar (word, command) is strong; 1 for the Yom Hashem is gadol and very terrible; 1 and who can endure it? 1

13And rend your lev, and not your garments, 1 and turn unto Hashem Eloheichem; 1 for He is channun (gracious) and rachum (merciful), 1 slow to anger, and of rav chesed, 1 and He relents from sending calamity. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29But if from thence thou shalt seek Hashem Eloheicha, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy lev and with all thy nefesh.

Judges 20:26Then kol Bnei Yisroel, and kol haAm, went up, and came unto Beit-El, and wept, and sat there before Hashem, and did a tzom that day until erev, and offered olot and shelamim before Hashem.

1 Samuel 7:6And they gathered together at Mitzpah, and drew mayim, and poured it out before Hashem, and did a tzom on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Hashem. And Shmuel judged the Bnei Yisroel at Mitzpah.

1 Kings 8:47Yet if they make in their lev teshuvah in HaAretz where they were carried captives, and turn, and make techinnah unto Thee in the eretz of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

2 Chronicles 6:38If they return to Thee with all their lev and with all their nefesh in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which Thou gavest unto Avotam, and toward HaIr which Thou hast chosen, and toward the Beis which I have built for Thy Shem,

2 Chronicles 20:3And Yehoshaphat feared, and set his face to inquire of Hashem, and proclaimed a tzom throughout all Yehudah.

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →

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