Add parallel Print Page Options

[a]Who knows? God may again repent and turn from his blazing wrath, so that we will not perish.”(A) 10 When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 3:9–10 Scripture frequently presents the Lord as repenting (or, changing his mind) of the evil that he threatens; e.g., Gn 6:6–7; Jer 18:8.

Who knows?(A) God may yet relent(B) and with compassion turn(C) from his fierce anger(D) so that we will not perish.”

10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented(E) and did not bring on them the destruction(F) he had threatened.(G)

Read full chapter