Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil.
New American Standard Bible
Now return to the Lord your God,
For He is
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness
And
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
not just your clothes,
and return to the Lord your God.
For He is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger, rich in faithful love,
and He relents from sending disaster.
International Standard Version
Tear your hearts, not your garments; and turn back to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to become angry, overflowing in gracious love, and grieves about this evil.
A Conservative Version
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.
American Standard Version
and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Amplified
Rip your heart to pieces [in sorrow and contrition] and not your garments.”
Now return [in repentance] to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness [faithful to His covenant with His people];
And He relents [His sentence of] evil [when His people genuinely repent].
Bible in Basic English
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
Darby Translation
and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
King James 2000
And tear your hearts, 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 relents from sending calamity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And tear your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. For he is full of mercy and compassion, long ere he be angry, and great in mercy and repentance when he is at the point to punish.
NET Bible
Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love -- often relenting from calamitous punishment.
New Heart English Bible
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
The Emphasized Bible
And rend your heart, and not your garments, turn therefore, unto Yahweh your God, - for, gracious and full of compassion, is he, slow to anger, and abundant in loving- kindness, and will grieve over calamity.
Webster
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth of the evil.
World English Bible
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Youngs Literal Translation
And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful is He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.
Themes
Anger » The lord being slow to anger
Contrition » Promises to those who come in contrition
God » To believers » To the penitent
God » Mercy of » Encourages to penitence
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » To the contrite
God's Promises » To the overcomers » To the penitent
Hyke or upper garment » Was the garment » Rent in token of grief
Kindness » The lord being kind
Longsuffering Of God » An encouragement to repent
Mercy » Encourages to penitence
God's Mercy » Manifested » To returning backsliders
Repentance » Examples of » Ascribed to God (change of purpose)
Topics
Interlinear
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References
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Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 2:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Repentance
12 And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing. 13 And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil. 14 Who shall know he will turn back, and lamenting and leaving a blessing after him, a gift and a libation to Jehovah your God?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 34:18
Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit
Jonah 4:2
And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil.
Job 1:20
And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.
Genesis 37:29
And Reuben turned back to the pit; and behold, Joseph not in the pit: and he rent his garments.
Genesis 37:34
And Jacob will rend his garments, and will put sackcloth upon his loins, and will mourn for his son many days.
2 Samuel 1:11
And David will take hold upon his garments and will rend them; and also all the men which are with him.
1 Kings 21:27
And it will be when Ahab heard these words, and he will rend his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and he will fast and lie down in sackcloth, and go softly.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 86:5
For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.
Psalm 86:15
And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.
Exodus 34:6-7
And Jehovah will pass by before him, and Jehovah will call, Jehovah God merciful and compassionate, deferring anger, and much in kindness and truth,
Numbers 14:18
Jehovah, slow to anger and of great kindness, lifting up iniquity and transgression and cleansing, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third, and upon the fourth.
2 Kings 5:7
And it will be when the king of Israel read the letter, and he will rend his garments and say, Am I God to kill and to make alive, that this one sent to me to gather a man from his leprosy? for surely know ye now, and see that he seeks occasion against me.
2 Kings 6:30
And it will be when the king heard the woman's words, and he will rend his garments; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people will see, and behold, sackcloth upon his flesh, from within.
2 Kings 22:11
And it will be when the king heard the words of the book of the law, and he will rend his garments.
2 Kings 22:19
Because thy heart was tender and thou wilt be humble from before Jehovah in thy hearing what I spake against this place, and against its inhabitants to be for desolation, and for a curse, and thou wilt rend thy garments and weep before me; and I also heard, says Jehovah.
Nehemiah 9:17
And they will refuse to hear, and they will not remember thy wonders which thou didst with them; and they will harden their necks, and they will give a head to turn back to their servitude in their perverseness: and thou a God of forgivenesses, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and great of mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.
Psalm 103:8
Jehovah being compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and great of mercy.
Psalm 106:45
And he will remember his covenant to them, and he will console according to the multitude of his mercy.
Psalm 145:7-9
They shall pour forth the remembrance of the multitude of thy goodness, and they shall shout forth thy justice.
Isaiah 58:5
Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.
Isaiah 66:2
And all these my hand made, and all these shall be, says Jehovah: and to this will I look, to the humble. and smitten of spirit, and trembling at my word.
Jeremiah 18:7-8
The moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy:
Ezekiel 9:4
And Jehovah will say to him, Pass through into the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark a mark upon the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning for all the abominations being done in her midst
Amos 7:2-6
And it was if he finished to devour the green herb of the land, and saying, O Lord Jehovah, forgive now: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small.
Micah 7:18
Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.
Nahum 1:3
Jehovah slow to anger and great of power, and Jehovah acquitting, will not acquit his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and a cloud the dust of his feet
Matthew 5:3-4
Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.
Matthew 6:16-18
And when ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they conceal their faces that they might appear to men fasting. Verily I say to you, That they have their reward.
Romans 2:4
Or the abundance of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering dos thou despise; not knowing that the goodness of God brings thee to repentance?
Romans 5:20-21
And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded:
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.
James 1:19-20
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: