Holy Scripture
Jonah 3:9
A church father on this verse
“Look here then, say you: I discover a self-incriminating case in the matter of the Ninevites, when the book of Jonah declares, "And God repented of the evil that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not." In accordance with which Jonah himself says unto the Lord, "Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?
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7And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineveh by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste anything, nor feed, nor drink water.
8So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloth, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,
— Jonah 3:9 —
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.