¹³ Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

¹⁴ For the Lord will be judge of his people's cause; his feelings will be changed to his servants.

³⁶ For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

⁴⁵ And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.

⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

⁶ The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.

³ The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

¹⁴ Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

¹⁶ So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

¹³ Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.

¹⁴ May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

⁸ How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

¹⁵ And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

¹⁰ O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

³ My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

⁴ Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

¹⁴ So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.

¹² Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.