However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.

我所说的那一邦，若是转意离开他们的恶，我就必后悔，不将我想要施行的灾祸降与他们。

我所说的那一邦若回转离开他们的恶，我就改变心意，不将我想要施行的灾祸降与他们。

我所说的那一邦若回转离开他们的恶，我就改变心意，不将我想要施行的灾祸降与他们。

如果他们悔过自新，我必施怜悯，取消我原本要降给他们的灾祸。

如果我论到的那一邦转离他们的恶行，我就必回心转意，不把我原定的灾祸降给他们。

我所說的那一邦，若是轉意離開他們的惡，我就必後悔，不將我想要施行的災禍降與他們。

我所說的那一邦若回轉離開他們的惡，我就改變心意，不將我想要施行的災禍降與他們。

我所說的那一邦若回轉離開他們的惡，我就改變心意，不將我想要施行的災禍降與他們。

如果他們悔過自新，我必施憐憫，取消我原本要降給他們的災禍。

如果我論到的那一邦轉離他們的惡行，我就必回心轉意，不把我原定的災禍降給他們。

我所論到的那一邦若轉回離開他們的壞事，那我就後悔我想要降與他們的災禍了。

如彼邦族轉離其惡、我則回意、不降所言之災、

我所言之國、如改其惡行、則我亦改我旨、不降所欲降之災、

and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.

But suppose the nation I warned turns away from its sins. Then I will not do what I said I would. I will not bring trouble on it as I had planned.

and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned.

if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I planned to bring on it.

if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

However, if that nation I have made an announcement about turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.

If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

“ But if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all my statutes, and does what is just and right, he will certainly live; he will not die.

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? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!

So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the LORD your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.

Perhaps they will listen and turn— each from his evil way of life— so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, the LORD was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The LORD was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them.

Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God.

Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.God saw their actions— that they had turned from their evil ways— so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

The LORD relented concerning this.“ It will not happen,” he said.The Lord GOD showed me this: The Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.Then I said,“ Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”The LORD relented concerning this.“ This will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

“‘ This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your actions, and I will allow you to live in this place.Do not trust deceitful words, chanting,“ This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.”Instead, if you really correct your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well.Or those eighteen that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed— do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well.”

remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.

Why should the Egyptians say,‘ He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.

LORD— how long? Turn and have compassion on your servants.

For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.

Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did not the king fear the LORD and plead for the LORD’s favor, and did not the LORD relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!”

He prayed to the LORD,“ Please, LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.

When I tell the righteous person that he will surely live, but he trusts in his righteousness and acts unjustly, then none of his righteousness will be remembered, and he will die because of the injustice he has committed.

You have left me.” This is the LORD’s declaration.“ You have turned your back, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am tired of showing compassion.

The LORD will indeed vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone and no one is left— slave or free.

So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said,“ The LORD is righteous.”

Tell them,‘ As I live— this is the declaration of the Lord GOD— I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?’

“ Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.Learn to do what is good. Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.“ Come, let’s settle this,” says the LORD.“ Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

The water engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, LORD my God!As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

‘ If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you, and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.

But the Israelites said,“ We have sinned. Deal with us as you see fit; only rescue us today!”So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.

When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your name, and they pray and plead with you for mercy in this temple,may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave their ancestors.