^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.

^8 (A)if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, ^(B)I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

¹⁴ So the Lord ^(A)relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

²⁷ So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and ^(A)put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.

²⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹ “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he ^(B)has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. ^(C)In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”

²⁰ “And he arose and came to his father. But ^(A)when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

³² The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for ^(A)they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.