You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

“Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord!

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.