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Jonah 4:2

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He prayed to YHWH, and said, “Please, YHWH, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? This is what I tried to prevent by fleeing to Tarshish. For I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and you relent of doing harm.

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But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.


YHWH is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.


For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in lovingkindness to all those who call on you.


Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in lovingkindness.


if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.


So YHWH turned away from the evil which ʜᴇ said ʜᴇ would do to ʜɪꜱ people.


But ʜᴇ, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times ʜᴇ turned ʜɪꜱ anger away, and didn’t stir up all ʜɪꜱ wrath.


YHWH relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” says YHWH.


When God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, God relented from the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.


But Jonah got up and fled to Tarshish, away from YHWH’s presence. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid its fare, and went aboard to go with them to Tarshish away from YHWH’s presence.


But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O YHWH, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”


YHWH relented concerning this. “This also will not happen,” says Lord YHWH.


Turn back, O YHWH! How long? Have compassion on your servants!


But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”


YHWH, you have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.


for YHWH your God is a compassionate God, then ʜᴇ will not fail you or destroy you, or forget the covenant that ʜᴇ swore to your ancestors.


YHWH is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.


Now y’all must reform your* ways and your* deeds, and obey the voice of YHWH y’all’s God. Then YHWH will relent from the disaster ʜᴇ has pronounced against y’all.


‘If y’all will stay in this land, then I will build y’all up and not tear y’all down. I will plant y’all and not uproot y’all up. For I am filled with sorry over the disaster that I have brought on y’all.


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





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