He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.”

“Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,

Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”