Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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1 Samuel 6:5Wherefore all of you shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that ruin the land; and all of you shall give glory unto the God of Israel: possibly 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 mercies.
Joel 2:14Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a food offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Jonah 1:6So the ship captain came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah 4:2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil.
Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before 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 →