9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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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?
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. …
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
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.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)Here is I. A wonder of divine grace in the repentance and reformation of Nineveh, upon the warning given them of their destruction approaching. Verily I say unto you , we have not found so great an instance of it, no, not in Israel; and it will rise up in judgment against the men of the gospel— generation, and condemn them; for the Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonas, but behold, a greate…
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