Amo 7:3 So the LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.
v God repents
VOTD 2 Samuel 7:15
2Sa 7:15 But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
VOTD Psalms 85:3
Psa 85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah
Psa 85:3 You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.
VOTD Psalms 60:1
Psa 60:1 O God, You have cast us off; You have broken us down; You have been displeased; Oh, restore us again!
VOTD 1 Samuel 2:30
1Sa 2:30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the LORD says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
VOTD Jonah 4:2
Jon 4:2 So he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
VOTD Joel 2:13
Joe 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
VOTD Jonah 3:4-9
Jon 3:4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Jon 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Jon 3:6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water.
Jon 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jon 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
VOTD Isaiah 55:6-8
Isa 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.
Isa 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
Isa 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
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VOTD Jeremiah 26:3
Jer 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
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VOTD Exodus 33:17
Exo 33:17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”
VOTD Genesis 6:6
Gen 6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.