Joel 2:13
So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
Note Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
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.
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- rend
- Here the word "rend" is used only once, but with two significations; in the former sentence it is used figuratively; in the latter literally--the heart not being rent in the same sense in which garments are rent.
- 2 Kings 22:19; Psalm 34:18; Psalm 51:17; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 66:2; Ezekiel 9:4; Matthew 5:3, 4
- your garments
- Genesis 37:29, 34; 2 Samuel 1:11; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 5:7; 2 Kings 6:30; 2 Kings 22:11; Job 1:20; Isaiah 58:5; Matthew 6:16–18; 1 Timothy 4:8
- for
- Exodus 34:6, 7; Numbers 14:18; Psalm 86:5, 15; Psalm 145:7–9; Jonah 4:2; Micah 7:18; Romans 2:4; Romans 5:20, 21; Ephesians 2:4
- slow
- Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 103:8; Nahum 1:3; James 1:19, 20
- and repenteth
- Psalm 106:45; Jeremiah 18:7, 8; Amos 7:2–6; Jonah 4:2