Jonah 3 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And the word of YHWH came to Jonah a second time, saying: Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call out to it the message that I am speaking to you.” “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”
3 And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of YHWH. And Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a journey of three days. So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. Jonah 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 And Jonah began to come into the city, a walk of one day, and he called out and said: “Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overturned!” Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
5 And the people of Nineveh trusted in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6 And this word reached to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne and passed off his royal clothing from him, and he covered himself with sackcloth and sat upon the ashes. The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. When 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 And he cried out and spoke in Nineveh: By the determination of the king and his nobles, saying: “The man and the beast, the herd and the flock, let them not taste anything, and let them not graze, and let them not drink water. And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, This 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 And let them be covered with sackcloth, the man and the beast, and call out to God with strength; and each man must turn back from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. But 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 Who knows? God may turn back and relent, and turn back from the burning of His anger, so that we should not perish!” Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.” Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
10 And God saw their deeds, that they turned back from their evil way, and God relented from the disaster that He had said to do to them, and He did not do it. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. When 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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