Jonah 3:9
Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Darby Translation
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 6:5And ye shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that destroy the land, and 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 for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
Joel 2:14Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God?
Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah 4:2And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Luke 15:18I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;
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 →