Jonah 3:8–4:2

⁸But every person and animal should be covered with rough cloth, and people should cry loudly to God. Everyone must turn away from evil living and stop doing harm all the time. ⁹Who knows? Maybe God will change his mind. Maybe he will stop being angry, and then we will not die.

¹⁰When God saw what the people did, that they stopped doing evil, he changed his mind and did not do what he had warned. He did not punish them.

God’s Mercy Makes Jonah Angry

4But this made Jonah very unhappy, and he became angry. ²He prayed to the Lord, “When I was still in my own country this is what I said would happen, and that is why I quickly ran away to Tarshish. I knew that you are a God who is kind and shows mercy. You don’t become angry quickly, and you have great love. I knew you would choose not to cause harm.