Jonah 3
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Jonah’s Preaching
3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:(A) 2 ‘Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh(B) and preach(C) the message that I tell you.’ 3 Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.
Now Nineveh was an extremely great city,[a](D) a three-day walk. 4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,(E) ‘In forty days Nineveh will be demolished! ’ 5 Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast(F) 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,(G) and sat in ashes. 7 Then he issued a decree(H) in Nineveh:
By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. 8 Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God.(I) Each must turn from his evil ways(J) and from his wrongdoing.[b] 9 Who knows?(K) God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.(L)
10 God saw their actions – that they had turned from their evil ways(M) – so God relented from the disaster(N) he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
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