Jonah 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Who can tell, God may turn and revoke His sentence against us [when we have met His terms], and turn away from His fierce anger so that we perish not. [Joel 2:13, 14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Common English Bible

⁹ He thought, Who knows? God may see this and turn from his wrath, so that we might not perish.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?

Jonah 3:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:22

He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Psalm 85:3

You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.

Psalm 90:13

Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Jeremiah 26:13

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will change his mind about the disaster that he has pronounced against you.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Jonah 1:15

So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

Jonah 1:6

The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the Lord’s wrath.

1 Samuel 6:5

So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land and give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand on you and your gods and your land.