Daniel 4:27
4:27 Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps your prosperity will be prolonged.”
Joel 2:13-14
2:13 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.
2:14 Who 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!
Amos 5:15
5:15 Hate what is wrong, love what is right!
Promote justice at the city gate!
Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.
Jonah 1:6
1:6 The ship’s captain approached him and said, “What are you doing asleep?
Get up! Cry out
to your god! Perhaps your god
might take notice of us
so that we might not die!”
Jonah 3:9
3:9 Who knows?
Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent
and turn from his fierce anger
so that we might not die.”
Jonah 3:2
3:2 “Go immediately
to Nineveh, that large city,
and proclaim to
it the message that I tell you.”
Jonah 2:1
2:1 Jonah prayed to the
Lord his God from the stomach of the fish