Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, 1 “Return to me with all your heart. 1 Fast, weep, and mourn.” 1

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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

11Yahweh raises his voice in front of his army, 1 for his warriors are very numerous; 1 for they are strong, those who carry out his commands. 1 For the day of Yahweh is great and very terrible. 1 Who can survive it? 1

13Tear your heart and not only your garments, 1 and return to Yahweh your God. 1 For he is gracious and merciful, 1 slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness, 1 and he would like to turn from inflicting punishment. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29But from there you will seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Judges 20:26Then all the soldiers of Israel and all the people went up to Bethel and wept, and there they sat before Yahweh and they fasted that day until the evening and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

1 Samuel 7:6They gathered at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” It was there that Samuel decided disputes for the people of Israel and led the people.

1 Kings 8:47Then suppose that they realize they are in the land where they have been exiled, and suppose that they repent and seek favor from you from the land of their captors. Suppose that they say, 'We have acted perversely and sinned. We have behaved wickedly.'

2 Chronicles 6:38Suppose that they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they took them as captives, and suppose that they pray toward their land, which you gave to their ancestors, and toward the city that you chose, and toward the house that I have built for your name.

2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat became afraid and set himself to seek Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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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