Then I felt sorry for them. So I did not destroy them. I did not put an end to them in the desert.

虽然如此，我眼仍顾惜他们，不毁灭他们，不在旷野将他们灭绝净尽。

虽然如此，我的眼仍顾惜他们，不毁灭他们，不在旷野把他们灭绝净尽。

虽然如此，我的眼仍顾惜他们，不毁灭他们，不在旷野把他们灭绝净尽。

但我怜悯他们，没有毁灭他们，没有在旷野把他们全部灭绝。

虽然这样，我的眼还是顾惜他们，不毁灭他们；我没有在旷野把他们灭绝。

雖然如此，我眼仍顧惜他們，不毀滅他們，不在曠野將他們滅絕淨盡。

雖然如此，我的眼仍顧惜他們，不毀滅他們，不在曠野把他們滅絕淨盡。

雖然如此，我的眼仍顧惜他們，不毀滅他們，不在曠野把他們滅絕淨盡。

但我憐憫他們，沒有毀滅他們，沒有在曠野把他們全部滅絕。

雖然這樣，我的眼還是顧惜他們，不毀滅他們；我沒有在曠野把他們滅絕。

雖然如此、我的眼還是顧惜他們，我不毁滅他們，不在曠野把他們全行滅盡。

然我目猶顧惜之、不加翦滅、不盡絕之於野、

然我猶加矜憫、不忍殲滅、不使殞沒於曠野、

然我目猶顧惜之、不忍殲滅、未使之盡亡於曠野、

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless, I took pity on them and held back from destroying them in the wilderness.

Yet I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not bring about their annihilation in the wilderness.

Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, died as I was prophesying. Then I fell with my face toward the ground. I cried out in a loud voice. I said,“ Lord and King, will you destroy all the Israelites who are still left alive?”

The Lord says,“ The whole land will be destroyed. But I will not destroy it completely.

“ In spite of that, even in those days I will not destroy you completely,” announces the Lord.

“ Because you loved them so much, you didn’t leave them in the desert. During the day the pillar of cloud didn’t stop guiding them on their path. At night the pillar of fire didn’t stop shining on the way you wanted them to go.

So I will not spare them or feel sorry for them. Anything that happens to them will be their own fault.”

This day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord handed you over to me in the cave. Some of my men begged me to kill you. But I didn’t. I said,‘ I will never lay my hand on my master. He is the Lord’ s anointed king.’

But he will destroy Nineveh with a powerful flood. He will chase his enemies into the place of darkness.The Lord will put an end to anything they plan against him. He won’t allow Assyria to win the battle over his people a second time.

They turned away from him. They weren’t faithful to the covenant he had made with them.But he was full of tender love. He forgave their sins and didn’t destroy his people. Time after time he held back his anger. He didn’t let all his burning anger blaze out.

“ Son of man, I am the Lord and King. I say to the land of Israel,‘ The end has come! It has come on the four corners of the land.

So I am angry with them. I will punish them. I will not spare them or feel sorry for them. They might even shout in my ears. But I will not listen to them.”