And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

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.

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?