Jonah 3:8-10

New International Reader's Version

⁸ Let people and animals alike be covered with the clothing of sadness. All of you must call out to God with all your hearts. Stop doing what is evil. Don’t harm others. ⁹ Who knows? God might take pity on us. He might not be angry with us anymore. Then we won’t die.”

¹⁰ God saw what they did. He saw that they stopped doing what was evil. So he took pity on them. He didn’t destroy them as he had said he would.