121. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from
the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping, things,
and the fowls of the air: for it _repenteth_ me that I have made them.
Genesis vi. 7.
122. And the Lord _repented_ of the evil which he had thought to do unto
his people. Exodus xxxii. 14.
123 It _repenteth_ me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is
turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments,
and it grieved Samuel, and he cried unto the Lord all night. 1 Samuel
xv. 11.
124. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy
it, the Lord _repented_ him of the evil, and said to the angel that
destroyed the people, it is enough; stay now thine hand. And the angel
of the Lord was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite. 2 Sam.
xxiv. 16.
125. If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil.
I will _repent_ of the evil that I thought to do unto them. If it do
evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will _repent of the
good_ wherewith I said I would benefit them. Jer. xviii. 8; 10.
126. For thus saith the Lord, like as I have brought all this great
_evil_ upon this people, so will I bring upon them the _good_ which I
have promised them. Jeremiah xxxii. 42.
127. And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord
your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and _repenteth_ him of the evil. Joel ii. 13.
128. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and
God _repented of the evil_ that he had said he would do unto them; and
he did it not. Jonah iii. 10.
129. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward;
therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; _I
am weary with repenting_. Jeremiah xv. 6.
Also notes 14, 26 and 167.
INCOMPREHENSIBILITY.
Who is the image of the _invisible_ God, the first born of every
creature. Coloss. i. W.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! _how
unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out_. Romans
xi. 33.
For _my thoughts_ are not _your thoughts_, neither are _your ways my
ways_ saith the Lord. Isaiah iv. 8.
130. And the Lord spake unto Moses _face to face, as a man speaketh unto
his friend_. Exodus xxxiii. 11.
131. Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and _seventy_ of the
elders of Israel. _And they saw the God of Israel_; and there was under
his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the
body of heaven in his clearness. Exodus xxiv. 9. 10.
132. And Jacob called the name of the place. Peniel; _for I have seen
God face to face_, and my life is preserved. Genesis xxxii. 30.
133. _I saw the Lord_ standing upon the altar. Amos ix. 1.
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