Joel 2:18

World English Bible (2000)

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

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  • Zech 1:14 : 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
  • Zech 8:2 : 2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • Isa 60:10 : 10 "Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
  • Isa 63:9 : 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 bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
  • Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
  • Hos 11:8-9 : 8 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.
  • Deut 32:16 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
  • Ps 103:17 : 17 But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;
  • Isa 42:13 : 13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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  • Zech 8:1-2
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    1 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.

    2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."

  • Joel 2:17
    79%

    17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

  • Joel 2:19
    76%

    19 Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

  • Nah 1:2
    76%

    2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

  • Zech 1:14-15
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    14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

    15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."

  • Ezek 39:25
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    25 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.

  • Ps 135:14
    75%

    14 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

  • Ps 79:5
    74%

    5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

  • Deut 6:15
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    15 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

  • Deut 32:21
    74%

    21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • Deut 32:36
    74%

    36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.

  • Ps 80:4
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    4 Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

  • Zeph 1:18
    73%

    18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

  • Zeph 3:8
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    8 "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

  • Ezek 38:19
    72%

    19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

  • Ezek 36:5-6
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    72%

    5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.

    6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:

  • Deut 4:24
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    24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

  • Lam 2:2
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    2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

  • Jer 9:9
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    9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Exod 34:14
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    14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.

  • Deut 29:27
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    27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

  • Isa 30:19
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    19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8 For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

  • Isa 9:17
    71%

    17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Zech 11:6
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    6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."

  • Exod 32:14
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    14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

  • Deut 32:43
    71%

    43 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

  • Joel 3:2
    71%

    2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

  • Jer 5:9
    71%

    9 Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Prov 6:34
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    34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.

  • Judg 2:20
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    20 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

  • Zeph 2:11
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    11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

  • Isa 42:13
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    13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

  • Ps 106:40
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    40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

  • Ps 78:21
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    21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

  • Jer 12:15
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    15 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

  • Deut 32:19
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    19 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

  • Jer 5:29
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    29 "Shall I not punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Prov 24:18
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    18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Ezek 35:10
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    10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:

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    58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

  • Jer 13:17
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    17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.

  • Isa 63:15
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    15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

  • Exod 32:11
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    11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

  • Amos 7:3
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    3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.