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

And the sons of Israel say unto Jehovah, `We have sinned, do Thou to us according to all that is good in Thine eyes; only deliver us, we pray Thee, this day.'

And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.

and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, `Righteous is Jehovah.'

And when Jehovah seeth that they have been humbled, a word of Jehovah hath been unto Shemaiah, saying, `They have been humbled; I do not destroy them, and I have given to them as a little thing for an escape, and I pour not out My fury in Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak;

Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done it .