Joel 2:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Joel 2:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - (And) now also All this being so, one way of escape there is, true repentance. As if God said , “All this I have therefore spoken, in order to terrify you by My threats. Wherefore “tu...
Joel 2:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Even Yet Humiliation and Repentance may Avert the Worst. But even now, though the calamity is so serious that it seems to be the precursor of the Day of Dread, Yahweh bids the people turn to Him wi...
Joel 2:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Therefore , &c. Another call ("F", Joel 2:12 , corresponding with "F", Joel 2:1 ). See the Structure, p. 1226. saith the LORD . [is] Jehovah's oracle. turn ye . turn ye back, or return....
Joel 2:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet, having proclaimed the dreadful judgment which we have noticed, now shows that he did not intend to terrify the people without reason, but, on the contrary, to encourage them to rep...
Joel 2:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1180 REPENTANCE URGED Joel 2:12-14 . Now, saith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not y...
Joel 2:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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: Turn ye even to me - Three means of turning are recommended: Fasti...
Joel 2:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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: Therefore. With such judgments impending over the Jews, Yahw...
Joel 2:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Repentance followed by Restoration Joel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come ( Joel 2:1-3 ). The advance of the locusts...
Joel 2:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Saith the Lord. — The word saith is here no common word in the Hebrew. It implies an authoritative and most weighty utterance, as in Psalms 110:1 , “The Lord said unto my Lord.” “The word is u...
Joel 2:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they...
Joel 2:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Averting of Judgment Joel 2:12-27 To rend the garment is easy, but a broken and contrite heart can be imparted only by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The love of God should bring us to repen...
Joel 2:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible devastation, and having called the people into the place of humiliation, the prophet rose to a higher level, and interpreted the visitati...
Joel 2:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a gracious invitation is contained in these words. How tenderly the Lord reasons with his people. And what an encouraging assurance it folds up with. Reader! do not fail to observe that this cal...
Joel 2:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE DISCIPLINE OF LENT (For Ash Wednesday) ‘Turn ye unto Me [saith the Lord] with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.’ Joel 2:12 (R.V.) For whom is Len...
Joel 2:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore also now, saith the Lord ,.... Before this terrible and intolerable day, which is near at hand, comes; before these judgments and calamities threatened take place, though just at hand; ser...
Joel 2:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: Ver. 12. Therefore also now, saith the Lord ] Now, though it be...
Joel 2:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore, also now , &c. Or, Nevertheless, also now, saith the Lord , &c. Here a method is pointed out, whereby they might still have hopes of avoiding the calamity denounced against them,...
Joel 2:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exhortation to Repentance. B. C. 720. 12 Therefore also now, saith the L ORD , turn ye...
Joel 2:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore, since so great displeasure is conceived against you for your sins, and so terrible execution is shortly to be made upon you, and there is no way of resistance or escape left, turn ye ev...
Joel 2:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH's Appeal To The People To Repent And Turn To Him ( Joel 2:12-14 ). This is probably to be seen as all in the words of YHWH in spite of the change to the third person half way through and the...
Joel 2:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 2:12 . Therefore ] repent with heart undivided, and with fasting , for heinous sins demand extraordinary penitence. Mourning ] Lit. beating on the breast, like the pub...
Joel 2:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 2:1 . Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2-3 . Joel 2:2 . A day of darkness, nigrum esse. The army of locusts obscured the...
Joel 2:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. The characteristics and encouragements of true repentance I. T...
Joel 2:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 2:1-29 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a congregational meeting for...
Joel 2:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prophet Urges Repentance
Joel 2:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 8:47-49 ; 1 Samuel 7:3 ; 1 Samuel 7:6 ; 2 Chronicles 20:3 ; 2 Chronicles 20:4 ; 2 Chronicles 6:38 ; 2 Chronicles 6:39 ; 2 Chronicles 7:13 ; 2 Chronicles 7:14 ; Acts 26:20 ; Deutero...

Joel 2:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 2:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 2:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 2:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 2:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Joel 2:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 2:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 2:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 2:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 2:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 2:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 2:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 2:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 2:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Joel 2:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 2:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 2:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 2:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 2:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 2:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 2:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 2:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 2:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 2:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 2:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 2:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge