Genesis 6:6
6And athe Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it bgrieved him to his heart.1 Samuel 15:35
35 cAnd Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, dbut Samuel grieved over Saul. eAnd the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.2 Samuel 24:16
16And when fthe angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem gto destroy it, hthe Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel iwho was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And jthe angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of kAraunah the Jebusite.Psalms 110:4
4 lThe Lord has mswornand will nnot change his mind,
o“You are pa priest qforever
after the order of rMelchizedek.”
Jeremiah 18:7-10
7If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will spluck up and break down and destroy it, 8and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, tturns from its evil, uI will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will vbuild and plant it, 10and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.Amos 7:3
3 wThe Lord relented concerning this:“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
Jonah 3:10
10When God saw what they did, xhow they turned from their evil way, yGod relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.Jonah 4:2
2And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? zThat is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a aagracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and abrelenting from disaster.
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