Jonah 3:8–4:2

⁸“But both man and ¹animal must be covered with sackcloth; and let ²men ^acall on God with their strength that each may ^bturn from his evil way and from the violence which is in ³his hands.

⁹“^aWho knows, God may turn and relent and turn away from His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

¹⁰Then God saw their works, that they ^aturned from their evil way, so ^bGod ¹relented concerning the evil which He had spoken He would ²bring upon them. And He did not ³bring it upon them.

CHAPTER 4

Jonah’s Anger

¹But this was a great evil to Jonah, and he became ^aangry.

²And he ^aprayed to Yahweh and said, “Ah! O Yahweh, was not this my word to myself while I was still in my own land? Therefore I went ahead to ^bflee to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a ^cgracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning evil.