Joel 2:13

"“Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”"

Key Reflection

This verse calls for a wholehearted turning back to God through various forms of repentance—fasting, weeping, and mourning. These actions symbolize deep remorse and a sincere desire to seek divine forgiveness and favor.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And rend your hearts and not your garments -that is, “not your garments only” (see the note atHosea 6:6). The rending of the clothes was an expression of extraordinary uncontrollable emotion, chiefly of grief, of terror, or of horror. At least, in Holy Scripture it is not mentioned as a part of ordinary mourning, but only upon some sudden overpowering grief, whether public or private . It was not used on occasion of death, unless there were something very grievous about its circumstances.

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