Parallel Verses New International Version "Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." King James Bible Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: Darby Bible Translation Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning; World English Bible "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning." Young's Literal Translation And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation. Joel 2:12 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleTurn ye even to me - Three means of turning are recommended: Fasting, weeping, mourning, i.e., continued sorrow. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge turn. Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near... Lamentations 3:40,41 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD... Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on your God continually. Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. with fasting. Jonah 3:5-8 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth... Library December 16. "I Will Restore to You the Years that the Locust Hath Eaten, the Canker Worm and the Caterpillar and the Palmer Worm, My Great Army, which I Sent among You" (Joel ii. 25). "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker worm and the caterpillar and the palmer worm, my great army, which I sent among you" (Joel ii. 25). A friend said to me once: "I have got to reap what I sowed, for God has said: 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' Then why don't you apply this in the spiritual world, and compel the sinner to pay the penalty of his sins?" Christ has borne this penalty, and the same Christ has borne the natural penalties, too, and … Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth Distinction Between Exterior and Interior Actions --Those of the Soul in this Condition are Interior, but Habitual, Continued, Direct, Profound, Simple, and Imperceptible --Being a Continual Whether all are Bound to Keep the Fasts of the Church? Whether Christ had any Acquired Knowledge? Cross References Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. 1 Samuel 7:3 So Samuel said to all the Israelites, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." Esther 4:16 "Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish." Isaiah 58:4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Jeremiah 4:1 "If you, Israel, will return, then return to me," declares the LORD. "If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, Jeremiah 4:2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives,' then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast." Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?' Jump to Previous Affirmation Declares Fasting Food Heart Keeping Lamentation Mourning Turn WeepingJump to Next Affirmation Declares Fasting Food Heart Keeping Lamentation Mourning Turn WeepingLinks Joel 2:12 NIVJoel 2:12 NLT Joel 2:12 ESV Joel 2:12 NASB Joel 2:12 KJV Joel 2:12 Bible Apps Joel 2:12 Biblia Paralela Joel 2:12 Chinese Bible Joel 2:12 French Bible Joel 2:12 German Bible Joel 2:12 Commentaries THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®. Bible Hub |