“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had,
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the ange
And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He ha
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against th
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daug
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set befo
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LOR
The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to
So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I wa
and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”