For I am the Lord, _I change not_; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed. Malachi iii. 6.
Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down
from the father of lights, _with whom is no variableness neither shadow
of turning_. James i. 17.
God is not a man, that he should lie, _neither the son of man, that
he should repent_; hath he said, _and shall he not do it?_ or hath he
spoken, _and shall he not make it good?_ Numbers xxiii. 19.
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.