Jonah 3:1-7 ▼

1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

2 |Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I give you.|

3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, |Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.|

5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, |Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;