Bible Verses About National Sins: Punishment for, averted on repentance

The children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, this day.”

They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.”

When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the LORD’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.