Bible Verses About Divine Regret

The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.