[a]Who can tell if God will turn, and repent and turn away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?

10 And God saw their [b]works that they turned from their evil ways: and [c]God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:9 For partly by the threatening of the Prophet, and partly by the motion of his own conscience, he doubted whether God would show them mercy.
  2. Jonah 3:10 That is, the fruits of their repentance, which did proceed of faith, which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet.
  3. Jonah 3:10 Read Jer. 18:8.

或者神转意后悔,不发烈怒,使我们不致灭亡,也未可知。”

神鉴其所行不降其灾

10 于是神察看他们的行为,见他们离开恶道,他就后悔,不把所说的灾祸降于他们了。

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