For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he seeth that (their) power is gone, And there is none (remaining), shut up or left at large.
Now therefore put away, (said he), the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.
And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Jehovah because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:
That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.