Bible Verses About God's Regret

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred 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.

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

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.

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.

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

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:

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

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.

And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

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

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

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

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

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

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

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

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

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

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

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

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.