World English Bible
Jonah 3:10
“God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.”
Jonah 3:10 in the King James Version
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.Read Jonah 3:10 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Jonah 3
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.
Cross references for Jonah 3:10
- Jeremiah 18:8
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
- 1 Kings 21:27-29
It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "See how Ahab humbles himself bef...
- Exodus 32:14
Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
- Luke 11:32
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 15:20
He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
- Amos 7:6
Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
- Amos 7:3
Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and a...
- Joel 2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
- Jonah 4:2
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving...
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