¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.^(A)

¹⁴ So the Lord relented^(A) concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.

¹⁶ Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it,^(A) but the Lord relented concerning the destruction^(B) and said to the angel who was destroying^(C) the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah^[a] the Jebusite.^(D)

⁸ However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.^(A)

³ Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I might relent^(A) concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

¹³ So now, correct your ways and deeds,^(A) and obey the Lord your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.

¹⁰ God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways^(A)—so God relented from the disaster^(B) he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

² He prayed to the Lord,^(A) “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place.^(B) I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,^(C) slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.^(D)