11 “‘For I myself well know the thoughts that I am thinking toward YOU,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘thoughts of peace, and not of calamity,+ to give YOU a future and a hope.+

33 For not out of his own heart has he afflicted or does he grieve the sons of men.*+

11 Say to them, ‘“As I am alive,” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, “I take delight, not in the death of the wicked one,+ but in that someone wicked turns back+ from his way and actually keeps living.+ Turn back, turn back from YOUR bad ways,+ for why is it that YOU should die, O house of Israel?”’+

10 Thus, I tell YOU, joy arises among the angels of God over one sinner that repents.”+

9 Jehovah* is not slow respecting his promise,+ as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.*+