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Jonah 3:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast  and dressed in sackcloth #– #from the greatest of them to the least.

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The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look #– #something greater than Jonah is here.


The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it,   because they repented at Jonah’s preaching; and look #– #something greater than Jonah is here.


So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.


Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the  Lord your God, and cry out to the  Lord.


Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved  to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast  for all Judah,


Now faith is the reality  of what is hoped for, the proof  of what is not seen.


By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.


So take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.


They all paid attention to him, from the least of them to the greatest, and they said, ‘This man is called the Great Power of God.’  ,


and he summoned Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.


Then all the commanders of the armies, along with Johanan son of Kareah,  Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest,  approached


In the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month,  all the people of Jerusalem and all those coming in from Judah’s cities into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.


No longer will one teach his neighbour or his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”  for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘For I will forgive their iniquity  and never again remember their sin.


I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.


I will grant  my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.’


When Mordecai learned all that had occurred,  he tore his clothes,  put on sackcloth and ashes,  went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.


Then he issued a decree  in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.


So the Israelites remained stripped of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward.


When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth,  and went into the Lord’s temple.





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