⁸And the human beings and the animals must be covered with sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his^f hands. ⁹Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn from his blazing anger^g so that^h we will not perish.”

¹⁰And God saw their deeds—that they turned from their evil ways—and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.ⁱ

Jonah Is Angry at Yahweh’s Compassion

4And this^a was greatly displeasing^b to Jonah, and he became furious.^c ²And he prayed to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh, was this not what I said^d while I was in my homeland? Therefore I originally fled^e to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and having great steadfast love,^f and one who relents concerning calamity.^g

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Footnotes

fHebrew “their”
gLiterally “from the heat of his anger”
hHebrew “and”
iHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
aHebrew “it”
bLiterally “was displeasing with great displeasure”
cLiterally “it was hot for him”
dLiterally “my word”
eLiterally “I did the first time to flee”
fLiterally “and great of steadfast love”
gThat is, calamity sent by God as judgment