The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
The prophets of old who have been before me and before you prophesied both against many countries and against great kingdoms, of war and disaster and pestilence.
The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon dry land.
“Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”