...when threatened with destruction, repented in sackcloth and ashes ; for, said they, Who can tell but God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not '. Nor were they mistaken in their hope, for God saw their works, that they turned from their evil...

...the violence that h in their bands. Who can tell if GOD will turn and repent, and turn away from hig fierce anger, that we perish not ? And GOD saw their...their evil way : and God repented of the evil that he would do unto them, and he did it not. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry....

...they humbled themselves before the Lord, and deprecated his deserved displeasure ; for they said. " Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not ? " Their hope was well founded, and their desire was graciously answered : — " God saw their works,...

...and cry mightily unto God ; yea, let every one turn from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands : who can tell, if God will turn and repent, and turn away his fierce anger, that we perish not ?" Which words contain an excellent and lively pattern for all...

...and cry mightily unto God ; yea, let every one turn from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands : who can tell, if God will turn and repent, and turn away his fierce anger, that we perish not ?" Which words contain an excellent and lively pattern for all...

...; but let man and beast VOL. IV.— 51 be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God ; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from...if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his (ierce anger, that we perish not. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways ;...

...Nineveh. believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil, that he said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. CHAPTER 100. PROPHECIES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE...

...feed nor drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God ; yea let them turn every one from his evil way, and from...violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will return and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not." Our Saviour alludes to...

...prayers. The king of Nineveh had a solemn fast at the hearing of Jonah's prophecy; " for," says he, " who can tell if God will turn, and repent, and turn...away from his fierce anger, that we perish not*?" None but a lunatic would ask for relief from them, that hath neither knowledge of his case, nor power...

...sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea, let every man turn from his evit way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not? And upon this their hearty repentance, thus declared outwardly with fasting,...