Jonah 3:8–4:2

⁸Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God.^t Each must turn from his evil ways^u and from his wrongdoing.^{G 9}Who knows?^v God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.^w

¹⁰God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways^x—so God relented from the disaster^y he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

JONAH’S ANGER

4Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.^{z 2}He prayed to the Lord,^aa “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place.^ab I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,^ac slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.^ad