Jonah 3:4 {3}
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And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.

Yet.

Jonah 3:10 Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?

Deuteronomy 18:22 Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.

2 Kings 20:1,6 In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son of Amos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not llve. . . .

Jeremiah 18:7-10 I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. . . .

Context
Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites
3Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee. 4And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.
Cross References
Matthew 12:41
The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

Luke 11:30
For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

Luke 11:32
The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it; Because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold more than Jonas here.

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Lexicon
On the first
אֶחָ֑ד (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 259: United, one, first

day
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

of his walk,
מַהֲלַ֖ךְ (ma·hă·laḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4109: A walk, a passage, a distance

Jonah
יוֹנָה֙ (yō·w·nāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3124: Jonah -- an Israelite prophet

set out
וַיָּ֤חֶל (way·yā·ḥel)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

into the city
בָעִ֔יר (ḇā·‘îr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

and proclaimed,
וַיִּקְרָא֙ (way·yiq·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7121: To call, proclaim, read

“Forty
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 705: Forty

more
ע֚וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

days
י֔וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

and Nineveh
וְנִֽינְוֵ֖ה (wə·nî·nə·wêh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5210: Nineveh -- capital of Assyr

will be overturned!”
נֶהְפָּֽכֶת׃ (neh·pā·ḵeṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert


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

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.

And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

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!

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.

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.

Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"

And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'
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