Jonah’s prophecy on Nineveh concludes in a very different fashion from that of Nahum’s, for in Jonah God says, ‘Should I not be concerned about that great city?’ (Jonah 4:11). The city is the same but this time there is going to be a very different result, for God’s patience has run out, and Nineveh must be destroyed. God’s incomprehensible mercy had been revealed through Jonah and his unimaginable wrath through Nahum. God’s undeserved mercy had been seen in saving his people and his awesome vengeance
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