| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time: | 1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:" |
| 2“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.” | 2Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you." |
| 3This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. | 3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the LORD's command. Now Nineveh was an extremely large city, a three-day walk. |
| 4On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!” | 4Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, "In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished!" |
| 5The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow. | 5The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth--from the greatest of them to the least. |
| 6When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes. | 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. |
| 7Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: “No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all. | 7Then he issued a decree in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. |
| 8People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. | 8Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing. |
| 9Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.” | 9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish. |
| 10When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened. | 10Then God saw their actions--that they had turned from their evil ways--so God relented from the disaster He had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it. |
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