nineteen of those he changes his mind away from an intended or actual judgment of sinful people. Among the other five uses, only one is from mercy to judgment. Jeremiah proposes a hypothetical case, claiming that if a nation does evil, God will change his mind about his intended blessings (Jer. 18:10). In two passages the word is used twice each to speak of God’s regret that something intended for good has not worked out: the creation of human beings (Gen. 6:6, 7) and the selection of Saul to be
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