Joel 2:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.

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  • Zech 1:14 : 14 And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.
  • Zech 8:2 : 2 These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
  • Isa 60:10 : 10 And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
  • Isa 63:15 : 15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
  • Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity. 9 I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.
  • Deut 32:16 : 16 The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.
  • Ps 103:17 : 17 But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
  • Isa 42:13 : 13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 8:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

    2These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.

  • Joel 2:17
    79%

    17Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Joel 2:19
    76%

    19And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:

  • Nah 1:2
    76%

    2The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

  • Zech 1:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.

    15And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

  • Ezek 39:25
    75%

    25For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name.

  • Ps 135:14
    75%

    14For the Lord will be judge of his people's cause; his feelings will be changed to his servants.

  • Ps 79:5
    74%

    5How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

  • Deut 6:15
    74%

    15For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

  • Deut 32:21
    74%

    21They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

  • Deut 32:36
    74%

    36For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • Zeph 1:18
    73%

    18Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

  • Zeph 3:8
    73%

    8For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.

  • Ezek 38:19
    72%

    19For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

  • Ezek 36:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:

    6For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:

  • Deut 4:24
    72%

    24For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

  • Lam 2:2
    72%

    2The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

  • Jer 9:9
    71%

    9Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Exod 34:14
    71%

    14For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

  • Deut 29:27
    71%

    27And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:

  • Isa 30:19
    71%

    19O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Isa 9:17
    71%

    17For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Zech 11:6
    71%

    6For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

  • Exod 32:14
    71%

    14So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.

  • Deut 32:43
    71%

    43Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.

  • Joel 3:2
    71%

    2And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.

  • Jer 5:9
    71%

    9Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Prov 6:34
    71%

    34For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

  • Judg 2:20
    70%

    20And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

  • Zeph 2:11
    70%

    11The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

  • Isa 42:13
    70%

    13The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.

  • Ps 106:40
    70%

    40Then the wrath of the Lord was burning against his people, and he was angry with his heritage.

  • Ps 78:21
    70%

    21So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel;

  • Jer 12:15
    70%

    15And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.

  • Deut 32:19
    70%

    19And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

  • Jer 5:29
    70%

    29Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Prov 24:18
    70%

    18For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Ezek 35:10
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    10Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:

  • Ps 78:58
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    58They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

  • Jer 13:17
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    17But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

  • Isa 63:15
    70%

    15Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

  • Exod 32:11
    70%

    11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

  • Amos 7:3
    70%

    3The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.