Jonah 3:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish?

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  • 2 Sam 12:22 : 22 He said, While the child was alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell if God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
  • Ps 106:45 : 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies.
  • Joel 2:13-14 : 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil. 14 Who knows if he will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, perhaps that God will consider us, that we do not perish.
  • Luke 15:18-20 : 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 And am no longer worthy to be called your son: make me like one of your hired servants. 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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    10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented of the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

  • Jonah 3:8
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    8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.

  • Joel 2:12-14
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    12Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

    13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.

    14Who knows if he will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?

  • Jer 26:3
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    3Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

  • Lam 3:39-40
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    39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

    40Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD.

  • Jer 18:8
    74%

    8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

  • Amos 7:3
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    3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.

  • Ps 90:11
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    11Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

  • Ps 85:4-5
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    4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.

    5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

  • Jonah 4:2
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    2And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.

  • Job 9:13
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    13If God does not withdraw His anger, the proud helpers stoop under Him.

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    7It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and each will turn from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

  • Rom 2:4
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    4Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

  • 2 Chr 29:10
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    10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

  • Exod 32:14
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    14So the LORD relented from the evil which He thought to do to His people.

  • Gen 6:6
    71%

    6And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

  • Jer 26:13
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    13Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

  • Jonah 3:5-6
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    5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

    6For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
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    47Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

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    13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

  • 2 Pet 3:9
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    9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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    3Turn us again, O God, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.

    4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

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    9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

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    8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

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    21Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.

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    22Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

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    14Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.

  • 2 Chr 6:37
    70%

    37Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;

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    70%

    14Should we again break Your commandments and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant or escaping?

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    32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, do not let all the hardship seem little before You that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our forefathers, and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

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    7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

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    6Who can stand before his indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  • Mic 7:18
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    18Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.

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    6The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the Lord GOD.

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    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?