Jonah 4:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He prayed to the Lord,  ‘Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled towards Tarshish in the first place.  I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,  slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.

Cross References

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold on to his anger for ever because he delights in faithful love.

Jeremiah 18:8

However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord relented  concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this.  ‘It will not happen,’ he said.

Jonah 3:10

God saw their actions #– #that they had turned from their evil ways   #– #so God relented from the disaster  he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

Jonah 1:3

Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish  from the Lord’s presence.  He went down  to Joppa  and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence.

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree  and prayed that he might die. He said, ‘I have had enough! Lord, take my life,  for I’m no better than my ancestors.’

Amos 7:6

The Lord relented concerning this.  ‘This will not happen either,’ said the Lord God.

Luke 10:29

But wanting to justify himself,  he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour? ’

Jeremiah 20:7

You deceived  me, Lord, and I was deceived. You seized me and prevailed. I am a laughing-stock all the time; everyone ridicules me.

Deuteronomy 4:31

He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant  with your ancestors that he swore to them by oath, because the Lord your God is a compassionate God.

Jeremiah 26:13

So now, correct your ways and deeds,  and obey the Lord your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 42:10

“If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you,  and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows?  God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.