Jonah 4:11
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So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: