Joel 2:12-14 "Even Now" declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning."(13) rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.(14) who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing."
Interesting fact but Joel means "Yahweh is God" http://bible.org/seriespage/joel,
Joel calls for utter destruction and death to rain over Israel and he uses an invasion of Locusts to represent an invasion of Israel which plays a very important part in the return of God's kingdom and the restoring of the temple. Joel and Whitman have a similarity in the fact that both talk about death like a fact of life. To Joel and Whitman death is coming, to Joel from God and Whitman well its inevitable and a fact of life but Joel has more hope I believe because he talks about rendering your heart (Joel 2:12-14) as if to give some hope to the people that you still have a chance, that when the days of wrath and death and destruction come upon us like a plague of locust you will still have a chance to repent and return to God but he says Render your hearts. Render as defined by dictionary.com has many meanings but I like this one the best "to present for consideration,approval, payment, action." Joel is basically saying to the people to repent and allow for God to take there hearts and allow God to use them and always to keep and stay with God. The locusts represent a very small part of what God can do. Joel was prophesying over a future and time when disasters worst then Locusts would come. Whitman understands the mortal death that we see everyday but Joel looked ahead to the spiritual realm of things and I believe Walt Whitman did too I think he was more for now then for the future.
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