⁸ and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

⁹ Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did [it] not.