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Joel 2:13Joel.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.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Déchirez vos coeurs et non vos vêtements, Et revenez à l'Eternel, votre Dieu; Car il est compatissant et miséricordieux, Lent à la colère et riche en bonté, Et il se repent des maux qu'il envoie.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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  • Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)

    Epistula I ad Corinthios

    ειν καὶ συνετὸς ἐν τῷ τὰ γενόμενα ἑδράσαι, ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἐν τοῖς ὁρωμένοις καὶ χρηστὸς ἐν τοῖς πεποιθόσιν Joel 2. 13; Sirach 3, 11; II Chron. 80, 9 ἐπὶ σέ, ἐλεῆμον καὶ οἰκτίρμον, ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν καὶ τὰς ἀδικίας καὶ τὰ παραπτώματα καὶ πλημμελείας. μὴ λογίσῃ πᾶσαν ἁμαρτίαν δο…
  • Origen

    In Jeremiam (Homiliae 12-20)

    ντας ἡμᾶς τὸ ἀξίωμα τῆς τελείου ἀνδρὸς ἡλικίας καὶ λαλοῦντας τοῖς παιδίοις μὴ συγκαταβαίνοντας αὐ- 1 Joel 2, 13. — 3ff. Vgl. in Matth. Tom. 17, 17 (Lo 4, 124f.) u. ö.; Philo quod deus sit immut. I, 280 M: δύο τὰ ἀνωτάτω πρόκειται κεφάλαια περὶ τοῦ αἰτίου, ἓν μὲν ὅτι »οὐχ ὡς ἄνθρω…
  • Pacian of Barcelona

    Exhortatory Little Book to Repentance

    to the Lord your God," he says, "with fasting, and weeping, and mourning, and rend your hearts" (Joel 2:12-13) . Do not fear this cutting, dearest ones. David endured it, he lay in filthy ashes, further deformed by a horrifying sackcloth. He who was once accustomed to gems an…

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