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Joel 2:18

God's loveMercy and compassion

16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

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BSB
Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.
KJV
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
WEB
Then the LORD was jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
ASV
Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
DARBY
Then Jehovah will be jealous for his land, and will have pity on his people.
BLB
And YHWH will be jealous for His land, and He will have pity on His people.
ÅB
Da blir Herren nidkjær for sitt land, og han sparer sitt folk.
OTB
Da ble Herren nidkjær for sitt land og hadde medfølelse med sitt folk.
B1930
Da blir Herren nidkjær for sitt land, og han sparer sitt folk.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Zechariah 8:2

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

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  • Psalms 103:13

    Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

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  • Zechariah 1:14

    So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

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  • James 5:11

    Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

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  • Lamentations 3:22

    It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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  • Isaiah 63:15

    Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

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  • Isaiah 63:9

    In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

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  • Isaiah 60:10

    And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

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