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1 Then the LORD spoke his word to Jonah a second time. He said, 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 |Leave at once for the important city, Nineveh. Announce to the people the message I have given 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 Jonah immediately went to Nineveh as the LORD told him. Nineveh was a very large city. It took three days to walk through it. 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 Jonah entered the city and walked for about a day. Then he said, |In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed.| 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 The people of Nineveh believed God. They decided to fast, and everyone, from the most important to the least important, dressed in sackcloth. 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 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in 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 Then he made this announcement and sent it throughout the city: |This is an order from the king and his nobles: No one is to eat or drink anything. This includes all people, animals, cattle, and sheep. 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 Every person and animal must put on sackcloth. Cry loudly to God for help. Turn from your wicked ways and your acts of violence. 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 reconsider his plans and turn from his burning anger so that we won't die.| 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 God saw what they did. He saw that they turned from their wicked ways. So God reconsidered his threat to destroy them, and he didn't 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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