¹⁵ And God sent an angel^(A) to destroy Jerusalem.^(B) But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented^(C) concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying^(D) the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah^[a] the Jebusite.

⁶ The Lord regretted^(A) that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

¹⁴ Then the Lord relented^(A) and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

⁴¹ Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour^(A) has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,^(A) how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,^(B) and you were not willing. ³⁸ Look, your house is left to you desolate.^(C)

¹⁸ “Micah^(A) of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says:

⁷ If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted,^(A) torn down and destroyed, ⁸ and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent^(B) and not inflict on it the disaster^(C) I had planned. ⁹ And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built^(D) up and planted, ¹⁰ and if it does evil^(E) in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider^(F) the good I had intended to do for it.^(G)

¹² “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(A) where I first made a dwelling^(B) for my Name,^(C) and see what I did^(D) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.