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.
(‏ حزقيال ٣٣ :‏ ١١‏ )‏ فقد قال يهوه لنبيّه ارميا :‏ « حين اتكلم في لحظة على امة وعلى مملكة لأستأصلها وأقوضها وأهلكها ،‏ فترجع تلك الامة عن شرها الذي بسببه تكلمت ،‏ فإني اتأسف على البلية التي فكرت ان انزلها بها » .‏ —‏ ارميا ١٨ :‏ ​ ٧ ،‏ ٨‏ .‏