Jonah 4:11
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11 And should I not pity Nineveh, (A)that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons (B)who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”
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Matthew 18:33
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33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’
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Luke 15:28-32
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28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, (A)for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”
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Jonah 1:2
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2 “Arise, go to (A)Nineveh, that (B)great city, and cry out against it; for (C)their wickedness has come up before Me.”
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Psalm 36:6
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6 Your righteousness is like the [a]great mountains;
(A)Your judgments are a great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
Footnotes
- Psalm 36:6 Lit. mountains of God
Psalm 145:8-9
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8 (A)The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.
9 (B)The Lord is good to all,
And His tender mercies are over all His works.
Deuteronomy 1:39
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39 (A)‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who (B)you say will be victims, who today (C)have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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Jonah 3:10-4:1
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10 (A)Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
Jonah’s Anger and God’s Kindness
4 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
Jonah 3:2-3
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2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, [a]a three-day journey in extent.
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- Jonah 3:3 Exact meaning unknown
Isaiah 1:18
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18 “Come now, and let us (A)reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
(B)They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
Psalm 145:15-16
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15 (A)The eyes of all look expectantly to You,
And (B)You give them their food in due season.
16 You open Your hand
(C)And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Psalm 104:27-28
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27 (A)These all wait for You,
That You may give them their food in due season.
28 What You give them they gather in;
You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
Psalm 104:14
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14 (A)He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the service of man,
That he may bring forth (B)food from the earth,
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