Joel 2:13

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Joel 2:13

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Summary

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Rend

Matthew 5:3

Your garments

For

Slow

And repenteth

General references

Genesis 37:34

Exodus 32:14

Jonah 3:9

Bible References

Rend

Because, tender, was thy heart, and thou didst humble thyself before Yahweh when thou heardest what I had spoken against this place and against the inhabitants thereof - that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me, therefore also, I, have hearkened - declareth Yahweh.

Near is Yahweh, to the broken in heart, And, the crushed in spirit, will he save.

The sacrifices of God, are a spirit that is broken, - A heart - broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

For, thus, saith he that is high and lifted up - Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and To revive the heart of them who are crushed; -

For, all these things, hath mine own hand made, And all these things came into being, - Declareth Yahweh. But for this one, will I look around, For him who is humbled and smitten in spirit, And so careth anxiously for my word.

Then said Yahweh unto him. Pass along through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, - and set thou a mark upon the foreheads of the men who are sighing and crying over all the abominations that are being done in her midst.

Happy, the destitute, in spirit; for, theirs, is the kingdom of the heavens;

Your garments

And Reuben returned unto the pit, and lo Joseph was not in the pit, so he rent his clothes;

Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them, - yea moreover, so did all the men who were with him.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, - and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am, I, God, to kill and to make alive, that, this, man is sending unto me, to set one free from his leprosy, - but, of a truth, just mark, I pray you, and see, that he, is seeking an occasion, against me.

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes, while yet he was passing by upon the wall, - so the people looked, and lo! sackcloth upon his flesh, within.

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell to the earth and worshipped;

Like this, shall the fast be that I choose, A day for the son of earth to humble his soul? Is it to bow down as a rush his head, And sackcloth and ashes, to spread out? Is it, this, thou wilt call a fast, Or a day of acceptance with Yahweh?

And, when ye may he fasting, become not ye, as the hypocrites, of sullen countenance, - for they darken their looks, that they may appear, unto men, to be fasting: Verily, I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

For, the bodily training, for little, is profitable, whereas, godliness, for all things is profitable, - having, promise, of life - the present and the coming.

For

So Yahweh passed before him, and proclaimed, - Yahweh, Yahweh, A God of compassion and favour, - Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and faithfulness:

Yahweh - slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, Forgiving iniquity and transgression: Though he will not leave, wholly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, Upon a third generation, and upon a fourth.

For, thou, O My Lord, art good and forgiving, And abundant in lovingkindness, to all who call upon thee.

The memory of thy great goodness, shall men pour forth, and, thy righteousness, shall they shout aloud.

So he prayed unto Yahweh, and said - Ah now! Yahweh! Was not, this, my word, while I was yet upon mine own soil? For this cause, did I hasten to flee unto Tarshish, - because I knew that, thou, art a GOD of favour and compassion, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and art grieved over calamity.

Who is a GOD like unto thee, taking away the iniquity - and passing over the transgression - of the remnant of his inheritance? He hath not held fast, perpetually, his anger, for, one who delighteth in lovingkindness, is he!

Or, the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise, - not knowing that, the kindness of God, unto repentance, is leading thee?

Law, however, gained admission, in order that the fault might abound, but, where the sin abounded, the favour greatly superabounded:

But, God, being rich in mercy, by reason of the great love wherewith he loved us,

Slow

but refused to hearken, neither kept in mind thy wonders which thou hadst done with them, but they hardened their neck, and appointed a head that they might return to their servitude, in their perverseness. But, thou, art a God of forgivenesses, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and didst not forsake them.

Compassionate and gracious, is Yahweh, - Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.

Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm-wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet.

Ye know, my brethren beloved, - but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

And repenteth

Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;

The moment I speak, concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, - to pull up and to break down, and to destroy;

And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating the herbage of the land, that I said - Oh, My Lord, Yahweh, forgive, I beseech thee: By whom shall Jacob, arise? for, small, he is.

General references

And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, - and mourned over his son many days.

So then Yahweh was grieved, - over the calamity - which he had spoken of inflicting on his people.

Who knoweth whether God himself - may turn and grieve, - and turn away from the glow of his anger, that we perish not?