Jonah 2:9
2:9 But as for me, I promise to offer a sacrifice to you with a public declaration of praise;
I will surely do what I have promised.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
Jonah 4:11
4:11 Should I
not be even more
concerned
about Nineveh, this enormous city?
There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong,
as well as many animals!”
Jonah 1:9
1:9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew! And I worship
the
Lord,
the God of heaven,
who made the sea and the dry land.”
Jonah 3:2
3:2 “Go immediately
to Nineveh, that large city,
and proclaim to
it the message that I tell you.”
Jonah 3:8
3:8 Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly
to God, and everyone
must turn from their
evil way of living
and from the violence that they do.
Jonah 3:10
3:10 When God saw their actions – they turned
from their evil way of living!
– God relented concerning the judgment
he had threatened them with
and he did not destroy them.
Jonah 4:10
4:10 The
Lord said, “You were upset
about this little
plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.
Jonah 1:5
1:5 The sailors were so afraid that each cried out
to his own god
and they flung
the ship’s cargo
overboard
to make the ship lighter.
Jonah, meanwhile,
had gone down
into the hold
below deck,
had lain down, and was sound asleep.
Jonah 4:5
4:5 Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.