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Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
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Verse 13. Garments, as was customary in great distress. God will not be satisfied with mere external proofs of repentance. Calmet.—Evil. He will forego his threats if we do penance. Saint Jerome—He punishes unwillingly. Isaiah 28:21.
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