Jonah 3:9 WEB

⁷  He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, 'Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

⁸  but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

⁹  Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?'

¹⁰  God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.