Jonah 3:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ All persons and animals must wear sackcloth. Everyone must pray earnestly to God and must give up their wicked behavior and their evil actions. ⁹ Perhaps God will change his mind; perhaps he will stop being angry, and we will not die!”

¹⁰ God saw what they did; he saw that they had given up their wicked behavior. So he changed his mind and did not punish them as he had said he would.