Joel 2:13

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Cross References

Genesis 37:29

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

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

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.

2 Kings 22:11

When the king had heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, he tore his clothes.

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 should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,’ says the LORD.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel had 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 heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

2 Chronicles 6:27

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach 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 refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did amongst them, but hardened their neck, 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 abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped.

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Psalm 106:45

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Psalm 34:18

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Psalm 51:17

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

Psalm 86:15

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Isaiah 57:15

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 58:5

Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Isaiah 66:2

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says the LORD: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Jeremiah 36:7

It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will each return from his evil way; for the LORD has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

Jeremiah 41:5

men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the LORD’s house.

Jeremiah 42:10

‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

Ezekiel 9:4

The LORD said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Nahum 1:3

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Numbers 14:18

‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.