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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. |
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