Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 18:8

8 If that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil , I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them .

If that Nation leaveth off those sinful courses, which I have by my Prophets threatned with judgments.

I will also turn from the methods of my severe Providence which I had resolved in case of their impenitency to proceed in against them. There is a difference betwixt Repentance in man, and Repentance as it is attributed to God, Repentance in man must be, not onely a change in action, but a change of Heart; Repentance as attributed to God, never signifieth a change of Heart, or purpose or counsels, but onely a change in action, an alteration of the course of his Providence. Hence God in Scripture is said to Repent as in this Text, and Ionah 3.10. And it is also said of him that he is not as man that he should lye or repent, Num. 23.19. 1 Sam. 15.29. God never changeth his counsels, or purposes, though he often varieth his actions of Providence, according to the behaviours of his creatures.

Marginal references: Ezek. 18.21. and 33.11.