12Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
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Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. …
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; …
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)We have here an earnest exhortation to repentance, inferred from that desolating judgment described and threatened in the Joel 2:1-11: Therefore now turn you to the Lord . 1. “Thus you must answer the end and intention of the judgment; for it was sent for this end, to convince you of your sins, to humble you for them, to reduce you to your right minds and to your allegiance.” God brings us into st…
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