If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
If so be they will hearken - expressed according to human conceptions; not as if God did not foreknow all contingencies, but to mark the obstinacy of the people, and the difficulty of healing them, and to show His own goodness in making the offer which left them without excuse (Calvin).