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.
Jehoova ütles oma prohvetile Jeremijale: „Kord ma räägin rahva või kuningriigi kohta, et teda kitkutakse, kistakse ja hävitatakse: aga kui see rahvas, kelle kohta ma rääkisin, pöördub oma kurjusest, siis ma kahetsen kurja, mida ma kavatsesin temale teha! ”.