Jonah’s Preaching
1 Then the word of theLordcame to Jonah a second time:
2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Ninevehand preachthe message that I tell you.”
3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to theLord’s command.
Now Nineveh was an extremely large city,a three-day walk.
4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,“In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished! ”
5 The men of Nineveh believed in God.They proclaimed a fastand dressed in sackcloth — from the greatest of them to the least.
6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth,and sat in ashes.
7 Then he issued a decreein Nineveh:
By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.
8 Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God.Each must turn from his evil waysand from the violencehe is doing.
9 Who knows?God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.
10 Then God saw their actions — that they had turned from their evil ways— so God relented from the disasterHe had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it.
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