Jonah 3:1-6 ▼

1 And there is a word of YHWH to Jonah a second time, saying,

2 “Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation that I am speaking to you”;

3 and Jonah rises, and he goes to Nineveh, according to the word of YHWH. And Nineveh has been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

4 And Jonah begins to go into the city—a journey of one day—and proclaims and says, “Yet forty days and Nineveh is overturned!”

5 And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least,

6 seeing the word comes to the king of Nineveh, and he rises from his throne, and removes his honorable robe from off him, and spreads out sackcloth, and sits on the ashes,