Ninevites Turn from Their Evil Ways
Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to aNineveh, the great city, and bcall out to it this very call which I am going to speak to you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an aexceedingly great city, a three days’ walk. 4 Then Jonah began to go into the city, one day’s walk; and he acalled out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
5 And the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a afast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 Then the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, laid aside his mantle from him, acovered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ashes. 7 And he acried out and said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, animal, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat, and do not let them drink water.
8 But both man and animal must be covered with sackcloth; and let men acall on God with their strength that each may bturn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
9 aWho knows, God may turn and relent and turn away from His burning anger so that we will not perish.”
10 Then God saw their works, that they aturned from their evil way, so bGod relented concerning the evil which He had spoken He would bring upon them. And He did not bring it upon them.