Jonah 3:9

Who can tell if HaElohim will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto Elohim; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the chamas that is in their hands.

10And HaElohim saw their ma'asim, that they shavu (turned) from their derech hara'ah; and HaElohim relented of hara'ah, that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:5So ye shall make tzalmei techorim (likenesses of tumors) of yours, and tzalmei akhabarim (likenesses of rats) of yours, of that which mar the land; and ye shall give kavod unto Elohei Yisroel; perhaps He will lighten His Yad from off you, and from off eloheichem (your g-ds), and from off your land.

Psalms 106:45And He remembered for their sake His Brit, 1 and relented according to the multitude of His chasadim (lovingkindnesses). 1

Joel 2:14Who knoweth but that He will return and have pity, 1 and leave behind Him a brocha; 1 even a minchah and a nesekh 1 unto Hashem Eloheichem? 1

Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon Eloheicha, if so be that HaElohim will think upon us, that we perish not.

Jonah 4:2And he davened unto Hashem, and said: I pray Thee, Hashem, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was quick to flee unto Tarshish before; for I had da'as that Thou art an EL CHANNUN V'RACHUM ERECH APAYIM V'RAV CHESED + 4:2 Ex 34:6 and relentest Thee of the ra'ah.

Luke 15:18I will get up and go to my Abba, and I will say, Avi, I sinned against Shomayim and in your sight. + 15:18 Lv 26:40; Ps 51:4 [6]

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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