He answered, ‘While the baby was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, “Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let him live.”
Jonah 3:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who can tell, God may turn and revoke His sentence against us [when we have met His terms], and turn away from His fierce anger so that we perish not. [Joel 2:13, 14.] American Standard Version (1901) Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? Common English Bible He thought, Who knows? God may see this and turn from his wrath, so that we might not perish. Catholic Public Domain Version Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish? |
He answered, ‘While the baby was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, “Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let him live.”
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.
Therefore, may my advice seem good to you, my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right, and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.’
Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.
The captain approached him and said, ‘What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. , Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.’
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.
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the Lord’s anger.
Make images of your tumours and of your mice that are destroying the land. Give glory to Israel’s God, and perhaps he will stop oppressing you, , your gods, and your land.