Jonah 3:5-7 ▼

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,

7 and he cries and says in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, “Man and beast, herd and flock—do not let them taste anything, do not let them feed, do not even let them drink water;