Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
The Lord relented concerning this: “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
The Lord relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the Lord.
and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.
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