Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, ¹  not just your garments!”

"Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning."

"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning;

That is why the LORD says, "Turn to me now, while there is time! Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

But there's also this, it's not too late--GOD's personal Message!--"Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!"

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

"Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning."

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, ¹  not just your garments!”

¹ sn The figurative language calls for genuine repentance, and not merely external ritual that goes through the motions.