Joel 2:13

Modern King James Version

Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.

Cross References

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben returned to the pit. And behold! Joseph was not in the pit! And he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

2 Samuel 1:11

And David took hold on his garments, and tore them. And likewise all the men with him did so.

1 Kings 21:27

And it happened when Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth and walked softly.

2 Kings 22:11

And it happened when the king had heard the Words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender and you have humbled yourself before Jehovah, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its people (that they should become a waste and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wept before Me), I have heard you, says Jehovah.

2 Kings 5:7

And it happened when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man from his leprosy? For consider now, and see, for he is coiling himself toward me.

2 Kings 6:30

And it happened when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth inside on his flesh.

2 Chronicles 6:27

then hear from Heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, when You have taught them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

Nehemiah 9:17

And they refused to obey, neither were they mindful of Your wonders which You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.

Job 1:20

And Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshiped.

Psalm 103:8

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy.

Psalm 106:45

and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.

Psalm 34:18

Jehovah is near to the broken-hearted; and saves those who are of a contrite spirit.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Psalm 86:15

But You, O God, are God full of pity, and gracious, long-suffering, and rich in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

Isaiah 57:15

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

Isaiah 66:2

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one I will look, to the afflicted and contrite spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

Jeremiah 36:7

It may be they will present their prayer before Jehovah, and will return, each one from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah has spoken against this people.

Jeremiah 41:5

some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 42:10

If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and will not pull you down. And I will plant you and will not pluck you up. For I repent of the evil that I have done to you.

Ezekiel 9:4

And Jehovah said to him, Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning because of all the abominations that are done in her midst.

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

Nahum 1:3

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Numbers 14:18

Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Ephesians 2:4

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us

1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.