Jonah 3:8-9

8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.

9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”

Jonah 3:8-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JONAH 3

This chapter gives an account of the renewal of Jonah's message to Nineveh, and of his faithful execution of it, Jon 3:1-4; and of the fruit and effect of it, the conversion of the Ninevites, their faith in God, repentance of their sins, and reformation from them, Jon 3:5-9; and of God's approbation thereof, by revoking the sentence he had pronounced upon them, Jon 3:10.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 130:1; John 1:6
• 2. Jeremiah 25:5
• 3. Jeremiah 7:3
• 4. S Job 16:17
• 5. 2 Samuel 12:22
• 6. S Jeremiah 18:8
• 7. S Joel 2:14
• 8. S Psalms 85:3