Jonah Chapter 3 verse 9 Holy Bible
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
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Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
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Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Who can tell? (2 Samuel 12:22). An expression of hope that the Divine, wrath may be averted by the timely repentance. It is the same form of words as in Joel 2:14, "Perhaps God would thereby indicate that he had himself put it into their mouths" (Pusey; comp. Jeremiah 18:11). If God; i.e. the one God, whom the king and his people now acknowledge as supreme, like the idol worshippers at Carmel, when they fell on their faces, crying, "Jehovah, he is the God" (1 Kings 18:39).
