Who Can Tell?

God's sovereignty being shown in the repentance of Nineveh at the preaching of Jonah.
"But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. WHO CAN TELL if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?" (Jonah 3:8-9)