Jonah 3
Jonah Goes to Nineveh
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to aNineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now aNineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 aAnd the people of Nineveh believed God. bThey called for a fast and cput on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
The People of Nineveh Repent
6 The word reached the king of Nineveh, and ahe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, band sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, a“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor bbeast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and abeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. bLet everyone turn from his evil way and from cthe violence that is in his hands. 9 aWho knows? God may turn and relent band turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did, ahow they turned from their evil way, aGod relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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