“Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways.”[21] Could it be that God knows every possible choice his people may make, but not the actual choices they will make? What God knows for certain is his own response: If “they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways . . . I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.”[22] Each generation of God’s people soon learned that their choices shaped what happened to them in