Jonah 4:2

New English Translation

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish! – because I knew that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Psalm 103:8

The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

Psalm 90:13

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

Exodus 32:14

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

Jeremiah 18:8

But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.

Jeremiah 20:7

Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.

Jeremiah 26:13

But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.

Jeremiah 42:10

‘If you will just stay in this land, I will build you up. I will not tear you down. I will firmly plant you. I will not uproot you. For I am filled with sorrow because of the disaster that I have brought on you.

Amos 7:3

The Lord decided not to do this. “It will not happen,” the Lord said.

Amos 7:6

The Lord decided not to do this. The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”

Jonah 1:3

Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the Lord. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the Lord.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their actions – they turned from their evil way of living! – God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

Micah 7:18

There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.

Luke 10:29

But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Deuteronomy 4:31

(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.