Jonah 3:9
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:5Therefore ye shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land. And ye shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
Psalms 106:45And he remembered his covenant for them, and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Joel 2:14Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering to LORD your God?
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.
Jonah 4:2And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundan
Luke 15:18After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 3:6-10
Nineveh's Repentance. ( b. c. 840.) 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not… Read the whole commentary →