8“But both man and 1animal must be covered with sackcloth; and let 2men acall on God with theirstrength that each may bturn from his evilway and from the violencewhich is in 3his hands. 9“aWhoknows, God may turn and relent and turn away from His burninganger so that we will not perish.”
10Then Godsaw their works, that they aturned from their evilway, so bGod1relentedconcerning the evilwhich He had spoken He would 2bring upon them. And He did not 3bringit upon them.