Jehovah told his prophet Jeremiah: “At any moment that I may speak against a nation and against a kingdom to uproot it and to pull it down and to destroy it, and that nation actually turns back from its badness against which I spoke, I will also feel regret over the calamity that I had thought to execute upon it. ” ​ — Jeremiah 18: 7, 8.
निनवेकरांनी जसे केले तसेच दुष्टांनी पश्‍चात्ताप करून आपला मार्ग बदलावा हे पाहण्यास तो उत्सुक असतो.