Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? / And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.