32:7Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! ^32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’"

23:15He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet Yahweh yonder. ^23:16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak. ^23:17He came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken? ^23:18He took up his parable, and said,

Rise up, Balak, and hear;

Listen to me, you son of Zippor:

2:11The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals; ^2:12and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. ^2:13They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. ^2:14The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. ^2:15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed. ^2:16Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them. ^2:17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; but they didn’t do so. ^2:18When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them. ^2:19But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. ^2:20The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; ^2:21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; ^2:22that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. ^2:23So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife. ^21:2The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore. ^21:3They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel? ^21:4It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. ^21:5The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. ^21:6The children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

15:10Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying, ^15:11It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

15:27As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore. ^15:28Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. ^15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

15:34Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. ^15:35Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

24:11When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, ^24:12Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. ^24:13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. ^24:14David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man. ^24:15So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. ^24:16When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

8:46If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; ^8:47yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; ^8:48if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: ^8:49then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; ^8:50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them ^8:51(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); ^8:52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. ^8:53For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh. ^8:54It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

9:1It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, ^9:2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ^9:3Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. ^9:4As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; ^9:5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. ^9:6But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; ^9:7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ^9:8Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house? ^9:9and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.

42:1Then Job answered Yahweh,

18:1The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, ^18:2Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. ^18:3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels. ^18:4When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. ^18:5Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ^18:6House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter? Says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. ^18:7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; ^18:8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. ^18:9At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; ^18:10if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them. ^18:11Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings. ^18:12But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

26:1In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying, ^26:2Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don’t diminish a word. ^26:3It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings. ^26:4You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, ^26:5to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened; ^26:6then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

26:12Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. ^26:13Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you. ^26:14But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes. ^26:15Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears. ^26:16Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God. ^26:17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying, ^26:18Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. ^26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.

3:1The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying, ^3:2"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

8:14For thus says Yahweh of hosts: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I didn’t repent; ^8:15so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid. ^8:16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates, ^8:17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.