“God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jonah 3 contains 10 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.