And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?

And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?