Joel 2:13
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.
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The call to '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' draws on the ancient Near Eastern practice of tearing garments as a sign of grief. Joel reinterprets the ritual gesture — external garment-tearing — as insufficient without the inner reality of heart-rending, anticipating the prophetic internalization of covenant in Jeremiah 31:33 and Ezekiel 36:26. The divine character formula ('gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in lovingkindness') originates in Exodus 34:6-7 and is cited or alluded to more than any other single Old Testament passage, becoming the Hebrew Bible's most foundational statement about God's character. Peter's Pentecost call to repentance (Acts 2:38) and the NT theme of heart-transformation over ritual compliance both draw on this prophetic tradition.
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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.
And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful <FI>is<Fi> He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.
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.
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