Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Cross References (24)

  • James 4:8–9 (40)

    Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind

  • Isaiah 55:6–7 (39)

    Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

  • 2 Chronicles 7:13–14 (36)

    If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My pe

  • Hosea 12:6 (36)

    But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.

  • Jeremiah 29:12–13 (30)

    Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

  • Jeremiah 4:1 (28)

    “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight

  • Hosea 6:1 (23)

    Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind

  • Deuteronomy 4:29–30 (21)

    But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all yo

  • 1 Samuel 7:6 (17)

    When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there

  • Jonah 3:5–8 (17)

    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

  • Zechariah 1:3–4 (16)

    So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will retur

  • Acts 26:20 (16)

    First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared

  • 1 Samuel 7:3 (15)

    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the f

  • Hosea 14:1 (15)

    Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

  • Lamentations 3:40–41 (15)

    Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

  • Nehemiah 9:1–2 (13)

    On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o

  • Judges 20:26 (12)

    Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted unt

  • 2 Chronicles 20:3–4 (11)

    Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

  • Isaiah 22:12 (10)

    On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

  • 1 Kings 8:47–49 (10)

    and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land

  • Zechariah 7:3 (9)

    by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth m

  • 2 Chronicles 6:38–39 (8)

    and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when the

  • Zechariah 7:5 (7)

    “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these

  • Zechariah 12:10–14 (5)

    Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will lo