Joel 2:18

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Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

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  • Zech 1:14 : 14 Then the angel who was speaking with me said, 'Proclaim this: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I am very zealous for Jerusalem and Zion with a great jealousy.'
  • Zech 8:2 : 2 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: I am very jealous for Zion, and I am burning with great zeal and anger for her.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 See, we consider those who have endured to be blessed. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the Lord's outcome—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
  • Isa 60:10 : 10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you; for though I struck you in my wrath, I will show you compassion in my favor.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their distress, he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and compassion, he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
  • Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 Because of the LORD’s steadfast love we are not consumed, for His mercies never end.
  • Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender. 9 I will not carry out My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
  • Deut 32:16 : 16 They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one is left—neither slave nor free.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, you nations, with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will take vengeance on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
  • Ps 103:17 : 17 But from everlasting to everlasting, the Lord's steadfast love is with those who fear Him, and His righteousness is with their children's children.
  • Isa 42:13 : 13 The LORD will march out like a warrior; like a man of battle, He will stir up His zeal. He will raise a shout, yes, He will cry out aloud; against His enemies, He will show Himself mighty.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 And he rose up and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran, embraced him, and kissed him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 8:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1The word of the LORD of Hosts came, saying:

    2This is what the LORD of Hosts says: I am very jealous for Zion, and I am burning with great zeal and anger for her.

  • Joel 2:17
    79%

    17Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • Joel 2:19
    76%

    19The LORD responded to his people: 'Behold, I am sending you grain, new wine, and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you a reproach among the nations.'

  • Nah 1:2
    76%

    2The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and reserves wrath for his enemies.

  • Zech 1:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14Then the angel who was speaking with me said, 'Proclaim this: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I am very zealous for Jerusalem and Zion with a great jealousy.'

    15But I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they added to the harm.

  • Ezek 39:25
    75%

    25Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.

  • Ps 135:14
    75%

    14For the LORD will judge His people and have compassion on His servants.

  • Ps 79:5
    74%

    5How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

  • Deut 6:15
    74%

    15For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. His anger will burn against you, and He will destroy you from the face of the earth.

  • Deut 32:21
    74%

    21They made Me jealous with something that is not God; they provoked Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a nation; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.

  • Deut 32:36
    74%

    36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one is left—neither slave nor free.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4God, restore us! Make your face shine upon us so that we may be saved.

  • Zeph 1:18
    73%

    18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord's wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy, for He will bring a sudden and complete destruction on all the inhabitants of the earth.

  • Zeph 3:8
    73%

    8Therefore, wait for me, declares the LORD, until the day I rise to testify. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation—all the burning heat of my anger. For in the fire of my jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed.

  • Ezek 38:19
    72%

    19In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare: On that day, there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

  • Ezek 36:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in my burning zeal I have spoken against the remnants of the nations and against Edom, who with glee and utter contempt claimed my land as their own possession, plundering its pasturelands.

    6Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the streams and valleys: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I am speaking in my jealous anger because you have endured the scorn of the nations.’

  • Deut 4:24
    72%

    24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

  • Lam 2:2
    72%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.

  • Jer 9:9
    71%

    9I will raise weeping and wailing for the mountains and a dirge for the pastures in the wilderness, because they are burned up and desolate; no one passes through, and cattle cannot be heard anymore—birds of the sky and animals alike have fled and are gone.

  • Exod 34:14
    71%

    14For you must not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  • Lam 4:16
    71%

    16The LORD Himself has scattered them; He will no longer watch over them. The priests are not honored, and the elders receive no favor.

  • Deut 29:27
    71%

    27In His anger and great wrath, the LORD uprooted them from their land and cast them into another land, as it is today.

  • Isa 30:19
    71%

    19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Isa 9:17
    71%

    17For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

  • Zech 11:6
    71%

    6For I will no longer show pity to the people of the land,' declares the LORD. 'I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.'

  • Exod 32:14
    71%

    14So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He had said He would bring on His people.

  • Deut 32:43
    71%

    43Rejoice, you nations, with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will take vengeance on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people.

  • Joel 3:2
    71%

    2I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them concerning my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up my land.

  • Jer 5:9
    71%

    9Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not take vengeance on a nation like this?

  • Prov 6:34
    71%

    34For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

  • Judg 2:20
    70%

    20Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

  • Zeph 2:11
    70%

    11The Lord will be awesome to them when He destroys all the gods of the earth. People from every shore and nation will bow down to Him, each from their own place.

  • Isa 42:13
    70%

    13The LORD will march out like a warrior; like a man of battle, He will stir up His zeal. He will raise a shout, yes, He will cry out aloud; against His enemies, He will show Himself mighty.

  • Ps 106:40
    70%

    40Therefore, the LORD's anger burned against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.

  • Ps 78:21
    70%

    21Therefore, when the Lord heard this, He became furious; a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger rose against Israel.

  • Jer 12:15
    70%

    15'But after I have uprooted them, I will return and have compassion on them and will bring them back, each to their own inheritance and each to their own land.'

  • Deut 32:19
    70%

    19The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters.

  • Jer 5:29
    70%

    29Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

  • Prov 24:18
    70%

    18Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

  • Ezek 35:10
    70%

    10Because you said, 'These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will take possession of them,' even though the LORD was there,

  • Ps 78:58
    70%

    58They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

  • Jer 13:17
    70%

    17But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

  • Isa 63:15
    70%

    15Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.

  • Exod 32:11
    70%

    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said, "LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?"

  • Amos 7:3
    70%

    3So the Lord relented concerning this: 'It will not happen,' said the Lord.