Exodus 32:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning wrath; change your mind about punishing your people.

Cross References

Genesis 6:6

the Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved.

1 Kings 8:51

For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace.

Ezra 10:14

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly; then let all those in our cities who have taken foreign women for wives appear at appointed times, accompanied by the elders and magistrates of each city in question, till we have turned away from us our God’s burning anger over this affair.”

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,

Psalm 74:18

Remember how the enemy has jeered, Lord, how a foolish people has reviled your name.

Psalm 78:38

But God being compassionate forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back his anger, unwilling to unleash all his rage.

Psalm 85:3

You forgave the guilt of your people, pardoned all their sins. Selah

Psalm 90:13

Relent, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord changed his mind about the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.

Exodus 33:13

Now, if I have found favor with you, please let me know your ways so that, in knowing you, I may continue to find favor with you. See, this nation is indeed your own people.

Isaiah 64:7

Yet, Lord, you are our father; we are the clay and you our potter: we are all the work of your hand.

Isaiah 64:8

Do not be so very angry, Lord, do not remember our crimes forever; look upon us, who are all your people!

Jeremiah 28:16

For this, says the Lord, I am sending you from the face of the earth; this very year you shall die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:14

but I acted for the sake of my name, so it would not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:22

but I stayed my hand, acting for the sake of my name, lest it be desecrated in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:9

I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations among whom they were: in the eyes of the nations I had made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:17

Between the porch and the altar let the priests weep, let the ministers of the Lord weep and say: “Spare your people, Lord! do not let your heritage become a disgrace, a byword among the nations! Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” The Lord Relents.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this. “This shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Amos 7:6

The Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may again repent and turn from his blazing wrath, so that we will not perish.”

Zechariah 8:14

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Just as I intended to harm you when your ancestors angered me—says the Lord of hosts—and I did not relent,

Numbers 14:19

Pardon, then, the iniquity of this people in keeping with your great kindness, even as you have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”

Numbers 16:21

Stand apart from this community, that I may consume them at once.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Having heaped up all its spoils in the middle of its square, you shall burn the city with all its spoils as a whole burnt offering to the Lord, your God. Let it be a heap of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 32:36

Surely, the Lord will do justice for his people; on his servants he will have pity. When he sees their strength is gone, and neither bond nor free is left,

Deuteronomy 9:28

lest the land from which you have brought us say, “The Lord was not able to bring them into the land he promised them, and out of hatred for them, he brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”

Joshua 7:26

Over Achan they piled a great heap of stones, which remains to the present day. Then the Lord turned from his anger. That is why the place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and the other inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will close in around us and efface our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.