Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may relent and avert his fierce anger, so that we may not die.”

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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

8Let both people and animals put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them each turn from their evil ways and from the deeds of violence which they are doing.

10When God saw that they turned from their evil course, he relented the evil which he said he would do to them, and did not do it.

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Cross References

Psalms 106:45He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented.

Joel 2:14Who knows but he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal and drink-offering for the Lord your God.

Jonah 1:6The captain of the ship went and said to him, “How can you sleep? Call on your god; perhaps that god will think of us, so that we may not be lost.”

Jonah 4:2He prayed to the Lord and said, “Ah, Lord, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? That was why I fled at once to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, patient, and loving and ready to forgive.

Luke 15:18I will get up and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I sinned against heaven and against you;

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 →

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