Joel 2:13

A Call To Repentance

¹² "And even now," {declares} Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing." ¹³ Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he [is] gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger} and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm. ¹⁴ Who knows [whether] he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God?

Gracious and Merciful

In Me

Rend Your Heart

Return to the Lord

Rich in Faith

Slow to Anger

To the Lord

Turn to the Lord

Abounding In Steadfast Love

Gracious And Compassionate

Steadfast Love

Jehovah

Joel

Psalm 34:18

Yahweh [is] near to [those who are] heartbroken and saves [those who are] crushed in spirit.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said} while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled} to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love}, and one who relents concerning calamity.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; {then} he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says [the] high and lofty one who resides forever, and [whose] name [is] holy: "I reside [in] a high and holy place, and with [the] {contrite} and humble of spirit, to revive [the] spirit of [the] humble, and to revive [the] heart of [the] {contrite}.

Genesis 37:29

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

Genesis 37:34

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

2 Samuel 1:11

David grabbed [at] his clothes and tore them, [as did] all of the men who [were] with him.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Psalm 51:17

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

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, [are] good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal love for all who call to you.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, [are] a compassionate and gracious God, {slow to anger} and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness.

Exodus 34:6-7

And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, [who is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger}, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness,

Numbers 14:18

'Yahweh [is] {slow to anger} and great of loyal love, {forgiving} sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.'

2 Kings 5:7

It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man [is] sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me."

2 Kings 6:30

It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath.

2 Kings 22:11

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

2 Kings 22:19

because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion {determined} to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger}, abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them.

Psalm 103:8

Yahweh [is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger} and abundant in loyal love.

Psalm 106:45

And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.

Psalm 145:7-9

They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.

Isaiah 58:5

Is [the] fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate {himself}? To bow his head like a reed, and {make} his bed [on] sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?

Isaiah 66:2

And my hand has made all these [things], and all these {came to be}," {declares} Yahweh, "but I look to this [one]: to [the] humble and [the] contrite of spirit and [the one] frightened at my word.

Jeremiah 18:7-8

One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy [it].

Ezekiel 9:4

And Yahweh said to him, "Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men {who are groaning and lamenting} about all of the detestable things {that are being done} in the midst of her."

Amos 7:2-6

And then when they finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he [is] small?"

Micah 7:18

Who [is] a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love.

Nahum 1:3

Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet.

Matthew 5:3-4

"Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:16-18

"Whenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

Romans 2:4

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

Romans 5:20-21

Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

1 Timothy 4:8

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

James 1:19-20

Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,