Jonah 3

1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

3 This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

5 And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

8 Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

10 When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5 ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8 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.

9 Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.

1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying:

2 Arise, go into the great city of Nineveh, and preach unto it the sermon which I say unto thee.

3 Then arose Jonah, and went to Nineveh, as the LORD had said. And Nineveh was a great city of God, three days' journey.

4 And when Jonah began to go in a day's journey into the city, he preached, saying, There are yet forty days, and Nineveh shall fall.

5 Then the people of Nineveh believed in GOD, and preached fasting, and put on sackcloth, both great and small.

6 And when this came before the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his purple, and put sackcloth about him, and sat down in ashes.

7 And he cried out and said unto Nineveh by the commandment of the king and of his mighty men, There shall no man nor beast, neither ox nor sheep, be tasted; neither shall they feed, nor drink water;

8 And they shall cover themselves with sackcloth, both man and beast, and cry fiercely unto God; and they shall turn every man from his wicked way, and from the iniquity of his hands.

9 Who knoweth that God will turn and repent, and turn from his fierce anger, that we perish not.

10 And when God saw their works, and they turned from their wicked ways, he repented him of the evil which he had spoken to do unto them, and did it not.