“ He answered,‘ I don’t want to!’ Yet later he changed his mind and went.

他回答说：‘我不去’，以后自己懊悔，就去了。

他回答：‘我不去’，以后自己懊悔，就去了。

他回答：‘我不去’，以后自己懊悔，就去了。

“大儿子回答说，‘我不去！’但后来他改变了主意，就去了。

他说：‘我不想去。’但后来他改变主意，就去了。

“大儿子回答说：‘我不愿意去。’可是后来他悔改，就去了。

他回答說：『我不去』，以後自己懊悔，就去了。

他回答：『我不去』，以後自己懊悔，就去了。

他回答：『我不去』，以後自己懊悔，就去了。

「大兒子回答說，『我不去！』但後來他改變了主意，就去了。

他說：‘我不想去。’但後來他改變主意，就去了。

他回答說，「阿爸，我去」；卻沒有去。

「大兒子回答說：『我不願意去。』可是後來他悔改，就去了。

對以不往、後悔而往、

對以不可、後悔而往、

對曰、不願、後乃悔而往、

對曰：「不願。」既而悔之、乃往。

“‘ I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.

“‘ I will not,’ the son answered. But later he changed his mind and went.

And he answered,‘ I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went.

The son answered,‘ No, I won’t go,’ but later he changed his mind and went anyway.

“ He answered,‘ I don’t want to,’ but later he changed his mind and went.

But he replied,‘ I do not want to.’ Yet afterward he regretted it and went.

He answered and said,‘ I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went.

And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented himself, and went.

He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.

The boy answered,‘ I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.

He answered,‘ I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

“ Which of the two did his father’s will?”“ The first,” they said. Jesus said to them,“ I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

“ Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil.Learn to do what is good. Seek justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.“ Come, let us discuss this,” says the Lord.“ Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will be like wool.If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

“ Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation.All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does what He wants with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can hold back His hand or say to Him,“ What have You done?”At that time my sanity returned to me, and my majesty and splendor returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and my nobles sought me out, I was reestablished over my kingdom, and even more greatness came to me.Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of heaven, because all His works are true and His ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

When he came to his senses, he said,‘ How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

“ As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call to Him while He is near.Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.When he was in distress, he sought the favor of Yahweh his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that Yahweh is God.After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate; he brought it around the Ophel, and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.He built the altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thank offerings on it. Then he told Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, are written in the Records of Israel’s Kings.His prayer and how God granted his request, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Records of Hozai.

Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing.Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.Then God saw their actions— that they had turned from their evil ways— so God relented from the disaster He had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it.

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.But the house of Israel says,‘ The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’ Is it My ways that are unfair, house of Israel? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?“ Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.“ Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so they will not be a stumbling block that causes your punishment.Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.“ So repent and live!

and saying,“ Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said: A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight!John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him,and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them,“ Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.

And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sinsin which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens,so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can boast.For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh— called“ the uncircumcised” by those called“ the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.