But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto Elohim: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy Elohim, if so be that Elohim will think upon us, that we perish not.
Wherefore they cried unto YY , and said, We beseech thee, O YY , we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O YY , hast done as it pleased thee.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
But shewed first unto them of Dammesek, and at Yerushalayim, and throughout all the coasts of Yhudah, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to Elohim, and do works meet for repentance.
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Say unto them, As I live, saith YY Elohim, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Yisrael?
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Yhudah, and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying, Thus saith YY ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that YY hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
It may be that the house of Yhudah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.