Jonah 3:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When God saw their actions– that they turned from their evil way of living!– God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 18:8 : 8 But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
  • Amos 7:6 : 6 The LORD decided not to do this. The Sovereign LORD said,“This will not happen either.”
  • Exod 32:14 : 14 Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27-29 : 27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected. 28 The LORD’s message came to Elijah the Tishbite, 29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.”
  • Amos 7:3 : 3 The LORD decided not to do this.“It will not happen,” the LORD said.
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved. 28 He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully,‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the LORD our God. 19 For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we struck our thigh in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’ 20 Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Joel 2:13 : 13 Tear your hearts, not just your garments!” Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love– often relenting from calamitous punishment.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.
  • Luke 11:32 : 32 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jonah 3:8-9
    2 verses
    83%

    8Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do.

    9Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

  • Exod 32:14
    81%

    14Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

  • Jer 26:3
    79%

    3Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing.

  • Jer 18:8
    79%

    8But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.

  • Amos 7:3
    78%

    3The LORD decided not to do this.“It will not happen,” the LORD said.

  • Jer 18:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

    11So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The LORD says,‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’

  • Gen 6:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6The LORD regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

    7So the LORD said,“I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth– everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

  • Amos 7:6
    74%

    6The LORD decided not to do this. The Sovereign LORD said,“This will not happen either.”

  • Jer 26:13
    74%

    13But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the LORD your God. If you do, the LORD will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.

  • Ps 78:38
    73%

    38Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

  • Joel 2:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Tear your hearts, not just your garments!” Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love– often relenting from calamitous punishment.

    14Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake– a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the LORD your God!

  • Jonah 4:2
    71%

    2He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

  • Job 34:27
    70%

    27because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

  • Prov 24:18
    70%

    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • Dan 9:14
    69%

    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

  • Ps 106:45
    69%

    45He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.

  • Ezek 33:19
    69%

    19When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.

  • Lam 3:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.

    33For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people.

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
    69%

    47When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.’

  • Jer 3:5
    68%

    5You will not always be angry with me, will you? You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ That is what you say, but you continually do all the evil that you can.”

  • 2 Cor 7:10
    68%

    10For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

  • Isa 3:9
    68%

    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

  • Exod 32:12
    68%

    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Neh 9:17
    68%

    17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

  • Zech 8:14
    68%

    14“For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘As I had planned to hurt you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,‘and I was not sorry,

  • 2 Chr 6:37
    68%

    37When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!’

  • Rom 2:4
    68%

    4Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

  • Num 23:19
    68%

    19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?

  • Jer 36:7
    68%

    7Perhaps then they will ask the LORD for mercy and will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. For the LORD has threatened to bring great anger and wrath against these people.”

  • Jer 42:10
    68%

    10‘If you will just stay in this land, I will build you up. I will not tear you down. I will firmly plant you. I will not uproot you. For I am filled with sorrow because of the disaster that I have brought on you.

  • Lam 3:40
    68%

    40נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.

  • Gen 18:20
    68%

    20So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

  • Gen 18:30
    68%

    30Then Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

  • Jonah 3:5
    68%

    5The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

  • Ps 78:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

    11They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.

  • Gen 18:32
    68%

    32Finally Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

  • Jonah 1:14
    68%

    14So they cried out to the LORD,“Oh, please, LORD, don’t let us die on account of this man! Don’t hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. After all, you, LORD, have done just as you pleased.”

  • Rev 9:21
    68%

    21Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

  • Acts 8:22
    68%

    22Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.