Jonah 3:8–4:2

⁸and cover themselves with sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. ⁹Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.’ ¹⁰And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done it.

Chapter 4

¹And it is grievous unto Jonah—a great evil—and he is displeased at it; ²and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, ‘I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land—therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish—that I have known that Thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?