¹⁰ When God saw what they did, ^(A)how they turned from their evil way, ^(B)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

⁸ and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, ^(A)turns from its evil, ^(B)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ^(A)ran and ^(B)embraced him and ^(C)kissed him.

²⁷ And when Ahab heard those words, he ^(A)tore his clothes and ^(B)put sackcloth on his flesh and ^(C)fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. ²⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹ “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; ^(D)but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”

¹⁴ And the Lord ^(A)relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

^32 (A)The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and ^(B)condemn it, for ^(C)they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, ^(D)something greater than Jonah is here.