Jonah 3:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Who knows? God may again repent and turn from his blazing wrath, so that we will not perish.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:22

He replied: “While the child was living, I fasted and wept, thinking, ‘Who knows? The Lord may grant me the child’s life.’

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,

Psalm 85:3

You forgave the guilt of your people, pardoned all their sins. Selah

Psalm 90:13

Relent, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Jeremiah 26:13

Now, therefore, reform your ways and your deeds; listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so that the Lord will have a change of heart regarding the evil he has spoken against you.

Daniel 4:27

the king said, “Babylon the great! Was it not I, with my great strength, who built it as a royal residence for my splendor and majesty?”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

Jonah 1:15

Then they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

Jonah 1:6

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps this god will be mindful of us so that we will not perish.”

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord, “O Lord, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I fled at first toward Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, repenting of punishment.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who have observed his law; Seek justice, seek humility; Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

1 Samuel 6:5

Therefore, make images of the tumors and of the mice that are devastating your land and so give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps then God will lift his hand from you, your gods, and your land.