Jonah 3:9

New International Version

Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:22

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

Jonah 1:6

The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”

Psalm 106:45

for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Psalm 85:3

You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.

Psalm 90:13

Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.

Jeremiah 26:13

Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the Lord your God. Then the Lord will relent and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”

1 Samuel 6:5

Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land.

Jonah 1:15

Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.