Joel 2:12

Translations

Modern

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Traditional

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

Literal

“Even now,” a declaration of YHWH, “May you turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

Latin

Nunc ergo, dicit Dominus, convertimini ad me in toto corde vestro, in jejunio, et in fletu, et in planctu.

Original

Hebrew

English

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Notes

Joel 2:12

This verse starts with declares the LORD a phrase often used for divine messages in the prophets. It is the only time it appears in Joel. This shows that the invitation came directly from God.
return to Me with all your heart: The Lord urged his people to repent because judgment day was near. They still had a chance to avoid destruction by truly returning to the Lord their God.
Unlike other prophets, Joel does not list the sins of Judah and Jerusalem. Perhaps they were so obvious that he did not need to mention them.

Joel 2:12–17

Joel urges the people to repent and rely on the mercy of their compassionate God.

Joel 1:1–2:17

The prophet Joel describes a severe locust plague that struck Judah and Jerusalem.

Theme notes and profiles

Apostasy and Renewal Retribution

Events

Prophecies of Joelc. 820 BC

Related verses

James 4:8–9
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Isaiah 55:6–7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
2 Chronicles 7:13–14
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
Hosea 12:6
But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.
Jeremiah 29:12–13
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 4:1
“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Deuteronomy 4:29–30
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Jonah 3:5–8
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
1 Samuel 7:6
When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
Zechariah 1:3–4
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
Acts 26:20
First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

Glossary

Book of Joel Darkness Locusts New Covenant Psalms, Book of

Topics

Access to God: Granted to Repenting Sinners Fasting: Accompanied by Mourning Fasting: Observed on Occasions of Judgments of God Fasting: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nation: National Adversity, Prayer In National Sins: should be Mourned Over Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Repentance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning The Anger of God is Averted Upon Confession of Sin and Repentance Weeping: Penitential

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