Joel 2:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the  Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:15

For the High and Exalted One, who lives for ever, whose name is holy,  says this: ‘I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold on to his anger for ever because he delights in faithful love.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord,  ‘Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled towards Tarshish in the first place.  I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,  slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will look favourably on this kind of person: one who is humble,  submissive   in spirit, and trembles at my word.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them,  and all the men with him did the same.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness,  restraint,  and patience,  not recognising  that God’s kindness  is intended to lead you to repentance?

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord   when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse,  and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, who is rich in mercy,  because of his great love  that he had for us,

Job 1:20

Then Job stood up, tore  his robe, and shaved  his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped,

Numbers 14:18

The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love,  forgiving iniquity and rebellion.  But he will not leave the guilty unpunished,  bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generation.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders which you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.  , But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, and you did not abandon them.

1 Timothy 4:8

For the training of the body has limited benefit,  but godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

Ezekiel 9:4

‘Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,’ the Lord said to him, ‘and put a mark on the foreheads  of the men who sigh and groan  over all the detestable practices committed in it.’

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the woman’s words he tore his clothes.  Then, as he was passing by on the wall, the people saw that there was sackcloth  under his clothes next to his skin.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes  and asked, ‘Am I God,  killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Recognise  that he is only picking a fight with me.’

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth  and walked around subdued.

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth round his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.

Genesis 37:29

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

Isaiah 58:5

Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the  Lord?

2 Kings 22:11

When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh,  and Samaria  who had shaved their beards,  torn their clothes, and gashed themselves, and  who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:10

“If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you,  and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

2 Chronicles 6:27

may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them the good way they should walk in. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.

Jeremiah 36:7

Perhaps their petition will come before the Lord,  and each one will turn from his evil way, for the anger and fury that the Lord has pronounced against this people are intense.’

Jonah 3:9

Who knows?  God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.