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God’s compassion extends to outsiders and opponents, challenging narrow loyalty and resentment. Jonah exposes the conflict between desiring strict retribution and reflecting God’s mercy toward those who turn from evil.
2"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
10God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn`t do it.
8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
10Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
11Shouldn`t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can`t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn`t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and you repent of the evil.