3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
3:2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”
3:3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city–a visit required three days.
3:4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned.”
3:5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
3:6 When the news 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.
3:7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
3:9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
3:10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.
3:1 Then the word of Jehovah came to Jonah a second time, saying,
3:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city; and proclaim to it the proclamation that I will speak to you.
3:3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ journey in size.
3:4 And Jonah began to go through the city a day’s journey and cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overturned!
3:5 And the men of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
3:6 And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne and put away his majestic clothes from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
3:7 And he issued a proclamation and declared in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great men, saying, Let neither man nor beast nor herd nor flock taste anything; let them not feed, nor let them drink water.
3:8 And let man and beast be covered in sackcloth, and let them call to God strongly. And let each turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
3:9 Who knows whether God will turn and repent, and will turn from His burning anger so that we do not perish?
3:10 And God saw their deeds, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented for the evil that He said He would do to them; and He did not do it.