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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the LORD's command. Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, a three-day walk. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, "In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth--from the greatest of them to the least. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then he issued a decree 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10God saw their actions--that they had turned from their evil ways--so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it. |
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