Jonah 3:5-7

New King James Version

The People of Nineveh Believe

⁵ So the ^(A)people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. ⁶ Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth ^(B)and sat in ashes. ^7 (C)And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his ^[a]nobles, saying,