Joel 2:13

God desires torn hearts, not torn garments, and reveals Himself as gracious, merciful, and slow to anger. True repentance rests on God's compassionate character.

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• Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
• Ps 34:18Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
• Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Matt 5:3–4“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
• Jas 1:19–20So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Jer 18:7–8At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
• Ps 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
• Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
• 2 Sam 1:11Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
• Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• 2 Kgs 22:19because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
• Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Rom 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• Num 14:18‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
• Ps 145:7–9They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
• Job 1:20Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
• Neh 9:17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, 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 abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
• 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
• Nah 1:3Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
• Matt 6:16–18“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
• 1 Kgs 21:27When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
• Gen 37:29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
• Gen 37:34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
• Isa 58:5Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
• 2 Kgs 6:30When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.
• 2 Kgs 5:7When the king of Israel had 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 heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
• Ezek 9:4Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
• 2 Kgs 22:11When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
• Amos 7:2–6When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

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