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He thought, Who knows? God may see this and turn from his wrath, so that we might not perish.[a]

10 God saw what they were doing—that they had ceased their evil behavior. So God stopped planning to destroy them, and he didn’t do it.

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  1. Jonah 3:9 Heb lacks He thought.

Who knows?(A) God may yet relent(B) and with compassion turn(C) from his fierce anger(D) so that we will not perish.”

10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented(E) and did not bring on them the destruction(F) he had threatened.(G)

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