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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

Your garments

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

And when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, of a sad face. For they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

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.

For

And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

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.

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

They shall pour forth the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness.

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.

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.

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?

But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

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

Slow

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.

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

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.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

And repenteth

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

The instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up and to pull it down, and to destroy it;

And it happened when it had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I pray You. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.

General references

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

And Jehovah repented as to the evil which He spoke of doing to His people.

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.