Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Joel 2:12
Verse 12. Turn ye even to me] Three means of turning are recommended: Fasting, weeping, mourning, i.e., continued sorrow.
Verse 12. Turn ye even to me] Three means of turning are recommended: Fasting, weeping, mourning, i.e., continued sorrow.
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 “turn un...
II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE REPENTANCE AND RESTORATION OF ISRAEL CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The alarm sounded and the day at hand (Joel 2:1) _ 2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3) 3. The rep...
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 with...
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. TO. quite up to,...
_turn ye even to me_ come back from your self-chosen course of sin, return to Me. On the idea of _turning_(or _returning_) to God in the Old Testament (from which the theological idea of "conversion...
Nevertheless, it is still not too late to avert the judgement by earnest penitence; for God is gracious and compassionate, and ready to pardon those who turn to Him with their whole heart. Cf. Jeremia...
_THE LORD'S INVITATION TO REPENT -- JOEL 2:12-17:_ At that moment it was not too late for the people to return to the Lord with all their heart and to cry in repentance to him. They were told to fast...
DISCOURSE: 1180 REPENTANCE URGED Joel 2:12. 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 your garmen...
II. PLAN FOR REPENTANCE TEXT: Joel 2:12-17 12 Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 and rend your heart, and...
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 Hi...
2:12 saith (c-4) See Genesis 22:16 ....
WITH ALL YOUR HEART] cp Deuteronomy 6:5....
REPENTANCE FOLLOWED BY RESTORATION Joel 2:1 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1). The advance of the locusts into the city...
THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 2 THE ARMY OF *LOCUSTS V1 Blow the *trumpet in *Zion. Tell the people on the *Lord’s hill to watch for trouble....
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 used i...
וְ גַם ־עַתָּה֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה שֻׁ֥בוּ עָדַ֖י
THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 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 worked are des...
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 repentance....
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 visitatio...
_Mourning. For moving the heart to repentance these external works are requisite, at least in will: if they be wilfully omitted, it is a sure sign that the heart is not moved. (St. Jerome) (Worthingto...
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 call...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...
_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 Lent orda...
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 repentance...
Joel 2:1 sounds the alarm, because the day is near. The day is then described as the invasion of a people, the like of whom had never been seen by Israel or the land. It was, in fact, the army of Jeho...
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; seriou...
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 l...
_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, namely,...
Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your heart, in a true repentance, AND WITH FASTING AND WITH WEEPING AND WITH MOURNING, as outward indications of the change of heart,...
THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...
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 EVEN T...
Joel 2:12 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 Turn H7725 (H8798) heart H3824 fasting H6685 weeping H1065 mourning...
JOEL CALLS THE PRIESTS AND PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE IN THE HOPE THAT YHWH WOULD TURN AWAY HIS JUDGMENT (JOEL 2:12). The call to repentance divides into two sections, the first an appeal to the people by...
YHWH'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE TO REPENT AND TURN TO HIM (JOEL 2:12). 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 question...
CONTENTS: Day of vengeance upon Israel. Invading hosts and awful scourges. Repentance of the Jewish remnant and Jehovah's response and deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Joel. CONCLUSION: The...
Joel 2:1. _Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,_ to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2. Joel 2:2. _A day of darkness, nigrum esse._ The army of locusts obscured the light whil...
_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. That...
JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:12 YET EVEN NOW... RETURN. There is still time for the people to repent. ⇐...
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 publican (Luke 18:...
EXPOSITION JOEL 2:1 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 penitence a...
Now he uses this as the springboard and he begins to speak now of a yet future day of devastation that is coming from armies that are to invade the land. And in the second chapter, as he describes thi...
1 Kings 8:47; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel 7:6; 2 Chronicles 20:3;...