 | William Frank Buckley - 1998 - 340 pages
...exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord' . for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to... | |
 | Randy Raynes - 1999 - 164 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. "Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than... | |
 | Natalio Fernández Marcos - 1993 - 1008 pages
...characteristics of human nature in contrast to the essence of God's relationship with humanity. "I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil" (Jonah 4:2b), cries Jonah, submerged in grief because... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to... | |
 | Yaira Amit - 2000 - 306 pages
...His readiness to repent of the evil He had planned, as may implied in another of Jonah's statements: "For I know that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentes! of evil" (4:2). The story concludes with God's words, that... | |
 | Richard H. Hiers - 2001 - 326 pages
...Yahweh, clearly explains why he tried to avoid this mission to Nineveh in the first place: "For I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil" (4:2).24S In short, Jonah did not want Yahweh to... | |
 | Paul D. Hanson - 2001 - 588 pages
...what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil. (Jonah 4:1-2) This quotation of the classic expression... | |
 | Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden - 2003 - 400 pages
...what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil. ^Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 366 pages
...anger and malice, the prophet voiced some of the most wonderful words about God in the Bible: "I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." What a tremendous revelation about God! No heathen nation ever knew a God like Jonah's. This truth... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 pages
...compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?" (Matthew 18:3233) Jonah prayed, "I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil" (Jonah 4:2). Although spoken in anger, these are the greatest words about God in the Old Testament... | |
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Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 
