Ninevites’ Sincere Repentance Wins Jehovah God’s Mercy: Jonah 3:5-10

July 15, 2023

Nineveh Repents

(Jonah 3:5-10)

true repentance of the Ninevites5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do to them; and he did it not.

Bible Verse–Malachi 4:2

But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Bible Verse–Psalm 71:6-8

By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of you. I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.

Bible Verses–Matthew 6:25-34

Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither ...

Bible Verse–1 Corinthians 13:4

Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up.

Bible Verses–Matthew 5:3、8

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Bible Verse–Revelation 21:5

And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.