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1 This message from the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 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 |Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell 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 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh to do what the LORD had ordered. Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross 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 As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, |40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!| 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 called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important. 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 message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down 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 had this proclamation published throughout Nineveh: |By decree of the king and his nobles: No man or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything, graze, or 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 Instead, let both man and animal clothe themselves with sackcloth and cry out to God forcefully. Let every person turn from his evil ways and from his tendency to do 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 but that God may relent, have compassion, and turn from his fierce anger, so that we are not exterminated?| 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 took note of what they did—that they turned from their evil ways. Because God relented concerning the trouble about which he had warned them, he did not carry it out. 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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