Jonah 3
3
Nineveh Repents
1Now the word of Adonai came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2“Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am telling you.”
3So Jonah rose and went to Nineveh according to the word of Adonai. Now Nineveh was a great city to God—the length of a three day journey.
4So Jonah began to come into the city for one day’s journey, and he cried out saying: “Another forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown!”
5Then the people of Nineveh believed God and called for a fast and wore sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
7He made a proclamation saying: “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, no man or beast, herd or flock, may taste anything. They must not graze nor drink water.
8But cover man and beast with sackcloth. Let them cry out to God with urgency. Let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence in his hands.
9Who knows? God may turn and relent, and turn back from his burning anger, so that we may not perish.”
10When God saw their deeds—that they turned from their wicked ways—God relented from the calamity that He said He would do to them, and did not do it.
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Jonah 3
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1And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee. 3And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!
5And the men of Nineveh believed God#GodHebrew: Elohim and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7And 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 anything: let them not feed, nor drink water; 8and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God#GodHebrew: Elohim and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who knoweth but that God#GodHebrew: Elohim will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10And God#GodHebrew: Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God#GodHebrew: Elohim repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did it not.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.