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, Yahweh Himself urges them to repentance.
Also now, saith the Lord - even now, what none could have hoped or believed possible, God still invites you to the hope of salvation. What pathetic tenderness marks this sudden turn from threatening to loving invitation!
Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. Their sin being most heinous, needs extraordinary humiliation. The outward marks of repentance are to signify the depth of their sorrow for sin.
Mourning - literally, with beating on the breast; as the publican smote on his breast, crying, "God be merciful to me a sinner" х bªmicpeed (H4553)], and as the people who beheld the crucifixion of Jesus smote their breasts (Luke 18:13; Luke 23:48).