Joel 2:13

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

and carve ye your hearts, and not your clothes, and be ye turned again to your Lord God, for he is benign, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and abiding, either forgiving, on malice.

Cross References

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben turned again to the cistern, and found not the child; and he rent his clothes,

Genesis 37:34

And he rent his clothes, and he was clothed with an hair-shirt, and bewailed his son in much time.

2 Samuel 1:11

Forsooth David took and rent his clothes, and [all] the men that were with him;

1 Kings 21:27

Therefore when Ahab had heard these words, he rent his cloth, and covered his flesh with an hair-shirt, and he fasted, and slept in a sackcloth, and went with the head cast down.

2 Kings 22:11

and the king had heard the words of the book of the law of the Lord, he rent his clothes.

2 Kings 22:19

and thine heart was afeared, and thou were made meek before the Lord, when his words were heard against this place, and against the dwellers thereof, that is, that they should be made into wondering, and into cursing, and thou rentest thy clothes, and weptest before me, and I heard, saith the Lord;

2 Kings 5:7

And when the king of Israel had read the letters, he rent his clothes, and said, Whether I am God, that may slay and quicken, for this king sent to me, that I cure a man of his leprosy? Perceive ye, and see, that he seeketh occasions against me.

2 Kings 6:30

And when the king had heard this, he rent his clothes, and passed by the wall; and all the people saw the hair-shirt, with which the king was clothed at the flesh within;

2 Chronicles 6:27

hear thou, Lord, from heaven, and forgive thou the sins to thy servants, and to thy people Israel, and teach thou them a good way, by which they shall enter, and give thou rain to the land, which thou hast given to thy people to have in possession.

Nehemiah 9:17

And they would not hear; and they had not mind of thy marvels, which thou haddest done to them; and they made hard their nolls; and they gave the head, that they were all-turned to their servage as by strife; but thou art God who is helpful, meek, and merciful, abiding long, either patient, and of much merciful doing, and forsookest not them;

Job 1:20

Then Job rose up, and he rent his clothes, and when his head was polled, he felled down upon the earth, and he worshipped God,

Psalm 103:8

The Lord is a merciful doer, and merciful in will; long abiding, and much merciful.

Psalm 106:45

And he was mindful of his testa-ment; and it repented him by the multitude of his mercy.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is nigh [to] them that be of troubled heart; and he shall save meek men in spirit.

Psalm 51:17

A sacrifice to God is a spirit troubled, that is, sorry for sin; God, thou shalt not despise a contrite heart, and made meek.

Psalm 86:15

And thou, Lord God, doing mercy, and merciful; patient, and of much mercy, and soothfast.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, Lord, art sweet and mild; and of much mercy to all men inwardly calling thee.

Isaiah 57:15

For the Lord high, and enhanced, saith these things, that dwelleth in everlastingness, and his holy name in high place, and that dwelleth in holy-ness, and with a contrite, either full sorry, and meek spirit, that he quicken the spirit of meek men, and quicken the heart of contrite men.

Isaiah 58:5

Whether such is the fasting which I choose, a man to torment his soul by day? whether to bind his head as a circle, and to make ready a sackcloth and ashes? Whether thou shalt call this a fasting, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Isaiah 66:2

Mine hand made all these things, and all these things be made, saith the Lord; but to whom shall I behold, no but to a poor man and contrite in spirit, and greatly dreading my words?

Jeremiah 36:7

if peradventure the prayer of them fall in the sight of the Lord, and each man turn again from his worst way; for why the strong vengeance and indignation is great, which the Lord spake against this people.

Jeremiah 41:5

fourscore men with shaven beards, and rent clothes, and pale men, came from Shechem, and from Shiloh, and from Samaria; and they had gifts and incense in the hand, for to offer in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:10

If ye rest, and dwell in this land, I shall build you, and I shall not destroy; I shall plant, and I shall not draw out; for now I am pleased on the evil which I did to you.

Ezekiel 9:4

And the Lord said to him, Pass thou by the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark thou Tau on the foreheads of men wailing and sorrowing on all [the] abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, be thou turned again to thy Lord God, for thou falledest down in thy wickedness.

Jonah 3:9

Who knoweth, if God be converted, and forgive, and be turned away from strong vengeance of his wrath, and we shall not perish?

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the Lord, and said, Lord, I beseech, whether this is not my word, when I was yet in my land? For this thing I purposed for to flee into Tarshish; for I know, that thou, God, art meek and merciful, patient, and of much merciful doing, and forgiving of malice.

Micah 7:18

God, who is like thee, that doest away wickedness, and bearest over the sin of the remnants of thine heritage? He shall no more send in his strong vengeance, for he is willing or desiring mercy;

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is patient, and great in strength, and he cleansing shall not make the wicked innocent. The Lord cometh in tempest, and the ways of him be in whirlwind, and clouds be the dust of his feet;

Numbers 14:18

[The] Lord is patient, and of much mercy, doing away wickedness and trespasses, and leaving no man unguilty, which visitest the sins of fathers into sons into the third and fourth generation,

Romans 2:4

Whether thou despisest the riches of his goodness, and the patience, and the long abiding? Knowest thou not, that the benignity, [or good will], of God leadeth thee to repenting [or to penance]?

Ephesians 2:4

but God, that is rich in mercy, for his full much charity in which he loved us,

1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercitation is profitable to little thing; but piety is profitable to all things, that hath a promise of life that now is, and that is to come.