Jonah 3:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knoweth whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

Psalm 106:45

And he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Psalm 85:3

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Psalm 90:13

Return, O LORD; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Jeremiah 26:13

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Amos 5:15

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgement in the gate: it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Jonah 1:15

So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

Jonah 1:6

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the evil.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgement; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

1 Samuel 6:5

Wherefore ye shall make images of your tumours, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land: