Cross references

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,”

declares the LORD,

“return to Me with all your heart,

with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Joel 2:12 BSB

Joel 2:12 has 24 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 24 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to James 4:8–9 (44 votes) and Isaiah 55:6–7 (42 votes). 33 other verses point back to it. It links with 26 other books, from Exodus 32 to James 4.

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Which verses does Joel 2:12 point to?

The 20 strongest of 24, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

  2. Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

  3. 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 people, and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

  4. Hosea 12:637 votes

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

  5. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

  6. Jeremiah 4:129 votes

    “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

  7. Hosea 6:123 votes

    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 up our wounds.

  8. 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 your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

  9. 1 Samuel 7:617 votes

    When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

  10. And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. …

  11. Acts 26:2017 votes
  12. 1 Samuel 7:315 votes
  13. Hosea 14:115 votes
  14. Judges 20:2613 votes
  15. Isaiah 22:1210 votes

Which verses point to Joel 2:12?

The 10 strongest of 33.