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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
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