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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 lovingkindness, And relents from sending calamity.
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Repentance is Internal
Commentators agree that the command to "rend your heart, and not your garments" is not a ban on outward expressions of sorrow, but a demand for genuine inner transformation. God desires a sincere, broken heart over sin, not just an external performance of religious ritual. This is a call to move beyond hypocrisy to authentic contrition.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And rend your hearts and not your garments - that is, “not your garments only” (see the note at Hosea 6:6). The rending of clothes was an ex…
19th Century
Anglican
He repents of the evil— that is, in the sense that of His own will He does not will the death of a sinner. The judgments of God, l…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet, having proclaimed the dreadful judgment which we have noticed, now shows that he did not intend to terrify the people without reason b…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And rend your heart, and not your garments Which latter used to be done in times of distress, either private or publ…
The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of s…
