Joel 2:13

A Call To Repentance

¹² Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning! ¹³ And rend your heart and not your garments.”
Now return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness
And relenting of evil.
¹⁴ Who knows whether he will turn back, feel regret and leave a blessing behind him, a meal offering and a drink offering to Jehovah 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

Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster).

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

Isaiah 57:15

The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: 'I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.'

Genesis 37:29

Reuben came back to the pit and found that Joseph was not there. He tore his clothes in sorrow.

Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

2 Samuel 1:11

David and all his men tore their clothes in sorrow.

1 Kings 21:27

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful (contrite) heart.

Psalm 86:5

You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Exodus 34:6-7

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

Numbers 14:18

Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.

2 Kings 5:7

The king of Israel read the letter and tore his clothes and said: How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God, with the power of life and death? It is plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me!

2 Kings 6:30

Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.

2 Kings 22:11

When the king heard what the book of the Law said, he tore his clothes in distress.

2 Kings 22:19

You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of Jehovah when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. I said that those who live here would be destroyed and cursed. You also tore your clothes in distress and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you,' declares Jehovah.

Nehemiah 9:17

They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Psalm 103:8

Jehovah is merciful and gracious. He is slow to anger, and rich in loving-kindness.

Psalm 106:45

He remembered his promise to them. In keeping with his rich mercy, he changed his plans.

Psalm 145:7-9

They will eagerly utter the memory of your great goodness and will shout joyfully of your righteousness.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed (rush) and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Isaiah 66:2

I have made all these things. That is why all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah. I will pay attention to those who are humble and sorry for their sins and who tremble at my word.

Jeremiah 18:7-8

At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom.

Ezekiel 9:4

Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark (signature) on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.

Amos 7:2-6

It happened when they quit eating the grass of the land. I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I entreat you: how shall Jacob stand? Since he is so small.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

Nahum 1:3

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power! He will by no means reprieve the guilty (leave them unpunished). Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. The clouds are the dust of his feet.

Matthew 5:3-4

Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Matthew 6:16-18

When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.

Romans 2:4

Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering? Do you not know that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 5:20-21

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

Ephesians 2:4

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

1 Timothy 4:8

Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.

James 1:19-20

You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.