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.”

Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.

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.

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.