translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JON

label: NET study note

text: Jonah is precisely correct in his listing of the Lord ’s attributes. See Exod 34:6-7 ; Num 14:18-19 ; 2 Chr 30:9 ; Neh 9:17, 31-32 ; Pss 86:3-8, 15; 103:2-13; 116:5 (note the parallels to in Ps 116:1-4 ); 145:8 ; Neh 9:17 ; Joel 2:13 . tn Heb “calamity.” The noun רָעָה ( ra ’ ah , “calamity, disaster”) functions as a metonymy of result – the cause being the threatened judgment (e.g., Exod 32:12, 14 ; 2 Sam 24:16 ; Jer 18:8; 26:13, 19; 42:10 ; Joel 2:13 ; Jonah 4:2 ). The classic statement of God’s willingness to relent from judgment when a sinful people repent is Jer 18:1-11 .


text: Apparently Jonah hoped that he might have persuaded the Lord to “change his mind” again (see 3:8-10 ) and to judge Nineveh after all.