Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Context
This verse from Jonah Chapter 3 connects to 8 cross-references. Jonah preaches to Nineveh: 'Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown.' Remarkably the entire city — from king to animals — repents in sackcloth. God sees their repentance and relents from the disaster he had said he would bring.
Autres traductions
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'
Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
Références croisées
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a …
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and …
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God …
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, …
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw …
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and …
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether …
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.