Joel 2:13
and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in mercy, and he does repent of chastisement.
Psalm 34:18
Tzaddi The LORD is near unto those that are of a broken heart and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was this not what I said when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and dost repent when thou art come to take punishment.
Job 1:20
Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped
Isaiah 57:15
For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.
Genesis 37:29
And Reuben returned unto the cistern; and, behold, Joseph was not inside, and he rent his clothes.
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days.
2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold on his clothes and rent them and likewise all the men that were with him.
1 Kings 21:27
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and slept in sackcloth and went softly.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 86:5
For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.
Psalm 86:15
But thou, O Lord, art a merciful and gracious God, longsuffering and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Exodus 34:6-7
And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,
Numbers 14:18
The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.
2 Kings 5:7
And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, Am I God, to kill and to give life, that this man sends unto me to remove the leprosy of this man? Therefore now consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
2 Kings 6:30
And when the king heard the words of the woman, he rent his clothes; and he passed by like this upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
2 Kings 22:11
And when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes.
2 Kings 22:19
and thy heart became tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD when thou didst hear what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become desolate and cursed, and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
Nehemiah 9:17
and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion thought to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou art a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, for thou didst not leave them.
Psalm 103:8
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalm 106:45
and remember his covenant with them and repent according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalm 145:7-9
Zain They shall proclaim the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness.
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 as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, by my hand has these things been, said the LORD; but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word.
Jeremiah 18:7-8
In an instant I shall speak against Gentiles and against kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy.
Ezekiel 9:4
and the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry out because of all the abominations that are done in the midst of her.
Amos 7:2-6
And it came to pass that when they had come to an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee; who shall lift up Jacob? for he is small.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like unto thee that pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellion with the remnant of his heritage? He did not retain his anger for ever because he delights in mercy.
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Matthew 5:3-4
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
Matthew 6:16-18
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They already have their reward.
Romans 2:4
Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, ignoring that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?
Romans 5:20-21
Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,
Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us,
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
James 1:19-20
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;