...covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God ; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way : who can tell, if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not" Jonah iii. 1 1 . Let them turn every one from his evil way. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. And...

...knoweth if God will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him? Or with the penitent Ninevites, Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not ? In each of these instances the very possibility of deliverance excited some measure of hope. Be encouraged...

...obliged his people to fasting and repentance, the utmost encouragement he could give them was only this ; Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? Jonah iii. 9Wherefore, to give us the highest assurance of pardon if we repent, God hath been so infinitely...

...punishment is sometimes described by the words anger, fury, wrath, and fierce wrath. Thus, Jonah iii. 9. ' Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not;' that is, whether he may not, upon our humiliation and repentance, avert from us the grievous punishment...

...God into an occasion of sinning. The Ninevites '" gathered another conclusion from these premises; " Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God : yea, let i Gal. vi.7. 8. * 2Chro. xxxvi. 16. ' Medium interim furantur tempu?, et commeatum facmnt iIclinquendis....

...king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing : let them not feed, nor drink water: but let man and beast be...hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and tarn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not ? . ]CJ I' ~ JONAH iii. 10. 5 . . . And God saw...

...the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be...turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he...

...proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth" (verse 5); while the king published a decree to his subjects: "Cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one...turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?" And we are told, "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of...

...was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights' (Jon. 1:17). 22-4 Mneveh . . . day of grace 'But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth,...way, and from the violence that is in their hands' (Jon. 3:8). After this repentance, Nineveh was saved. 27 opened of its own accord the gate allusion...

...in the 'Popular interpretation' section below. King of Nineveh's faithfully recited biblical lines: 'Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn...away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?', he simply shrugs: 'Who can tell? But if you ask my opinion, I don't think so. Otherwise he doesn't...