Jonah 3:8–4:2

⁸Humans and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands.^{* 9}Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”^*

¹⁰When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.^*

Jonah’s Anger

⁴But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry.^{* 2}He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.^*