The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me." -- 1:1

And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. -- 1:17

Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. -- 2:10

You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. -- 4:2
 

Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish, and he said, "I called out of my distress to the LORD, and He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.  For You had cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current engulfed me. All Your  breakers and billows passed over me.  So I said, 'I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'  Water encompassed me to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, weeds were wrapped around my head.  I descended to the roots of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, but You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.  While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.  Those who regard vain idols forsake their faithfulness, but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the LORD." -- 2:1-9

"Let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish."  When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. -- 3:8-10

But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.  He prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country?  Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life." -- 4:1-3

The LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.  Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?" -- 4:10-11