relent.” He refuses to permit Nineveh’s fasting and repentance to overpower this sovereign deity. In a somewhat subtle manner, the text demonstrates the ultimate expression of God’s sovereignty in its depiction of the divine change of plans regarding Nineveh. The book of Jonah is not unique among OT texts in depicting God’s “relenting” or changing his mind. However, the instances in which God does change his mind throughout the OT are never arbitrary or haphazard. These occasions are consistently