Search results for: Jonah 3:5-10
Jonah 3:5 (NIV)
The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
Jonah 3:6 (NIV)
When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
Jonah 3:7 (NIV)
This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
Jonah 3:8 (NIV)
But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
Jonah 3:9 (NIV)
Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
Jonah 3:10 (NIV)
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
Jonah 3:1 (NIV)
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
Jonah 3:2 (NIV)
“Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”
Jonah 3:4 (NIV)
Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
Jonah 3:3 (NIV)
Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.
Jonah 1:3 (NIV)
But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord .
Jonah 4:3 (NIV)
Now, Lord , take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah 2:3 (NIV)
You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.
Jonah 4:9 (NIV)
But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”
Jonah 1:2 (NIV)
“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
Jonah 2:2 (NIV)
He said: “In my distress I called to the Lord , and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.
Jonah 2:1 (NIV)
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.
Jonah 4:2 (NIV)
He prayed to the Lord , “Isn’t this what I said, Lord , when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
Jonah 2:10 (NIV)
And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Jonah 4:8 (NIV)
When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah 4:10 (NIV)
But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.
Jonah 1:10 (NIV)
This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord , because he had already told them so.)
Jonah 4:4 (NIV)
But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
Jonah 1:5 (NIV)
All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
Jonah 2:6 (NIV)
To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit.