Catholic Public Domain Version
"Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?” "
— Jonah 3:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”
“Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? ”
“Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"”
“Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.””
“Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?”
“Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?”
“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”
And word reached the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne, and he threw off his robe from himself and was clothed in sackcloth, and he sat in ashes.
And he cried out and spoke: “In Nineveh, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, let it be said: Men and beasts and oxen and sheep may not taste anything. Neither shall they feed or drink water.
And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry out to the Lord with strength, and may man be converted from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?”
And God saw their works, that they had been converted from their evil way. And God took pity on them, concerning the harm that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.