Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
⛓ Read Joel 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God 'gracious and merciful, slow to anger… and relents over disaster' grounds the patience that defers judgment for repentance (cf. Jonah 4:2).
Medium confidenceThe gracious-and-compassionate, slow-to-anger formula also appears in Joel and could feed the attribute cluster of v.12. Low/secondary; Exod 34:6 and Ps 103:8 are the primary witnesses, with Joel one of several prophetic reuses of the same liturgical formula.
Low confidence