Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
KJV
Quis scit si convertatur et ignoscat Deus, et revertatur a furore iræ suæ, et non peribimus ?
Vulgate
Τίς οἶδεν εἰ μετανοήσει ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἀποστρέψει ἐξ ὀργῆς θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα;
LXX
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
ASV
מִֽי יוֹדֵ֣עַ יָשׁ֔וּב וְ/נִחַ֖ם הָ/אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְ/שָׁ֛ב מֵ/חֲר֥וֹן אַפּ֖/וֹ וְ/לֹ֥א נֹאבֵֽד
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
וֹ
v
noun · 275×
חֲר֥וֹן
chrvn
noun · 41×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 183×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 7:4 — If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians:
- 2Sam 12:16 — David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
- 2Sam 12:22 — And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
- 2Sam 12:22 — And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
- Acts 8:22 — Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
- Amos 5:15 — Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
- Dan 4:27 — Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
- Exod 32:12 — Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent
- Exod 32:30 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
- Jer 18:8 — If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
- Jer 26:13 — Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
- Joel 2:13 — And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
- Joel 2:14 — Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
- Jonah 1:6 — So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
- Jonah 1:6 — So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
- Judg 10:15 — And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
- Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
- Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
- Ps 85:3 — Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
- Ps 90:13 — Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- Ps 106:45 — And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Zeph 2:3 — Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.