[a]Who can tell if God will turn, and repent and turn away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?

10 And God saw their [b]works that they turned from their evil ways: and [c]God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:9 For partly by the threatening of the Prophet, and partly by the motion of his own conscience, he doubted whether God would show them mercy.
  2. Jonah 3:10 That is, the fruits of their repentance, which did proceed of faith, which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet.
  3. Jonah 3:10 Read Jer. 18:8.

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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