Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
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TSK · Exodus 32:12
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'Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'
lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'
I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I didn't repent;