Jonah 3
1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message I tell you.”
3 Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, as the word of the LORD directed. Nineveh was a great city before God, a three-day walk across.
4 Jonah began to enter the city, walking for one day, and proclaimed: “Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overthrown!”
5 The people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least.
6 The news reached the king of Nineveh. He rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 He had a proclamation made throughout Nineveh by decree of the king and his nobles: “Let no person or animal, no cattle or flock, taste anything. They must not graze or drink water.
8 Let people and animals cover themselves with sackcloth and cry out to God with all their strength. Let each person turn from their evil way and from the violence in their hands.
9 Who knows? Perhaps God will turn back, relent, and turn away from his burning anger, so that we do not die.”
10 God saw what they did, that they had turned from their evil way. God relented from the disaster he had said he would bring on them, and did not do it.
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