Jonah 3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Jonah 3

¹ The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:

² ‘Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh  and preach  the message that I tell you.’

³ Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command. Now Nineveh was an extremely great city,  , a three-day walk.

⁴ Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,  ‘In forty days Nineveh will be demolished! ’

⁵ Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast  and 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, covered himself with sackcloth,  and sat in ashes.

⁷ 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.

⁸ Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God.  Each must turn from his evil ways  and from his wrongdoing.

⁹ Who knows?  God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.

¹⁰ God saw their actions #– #that they had turned from their evil ways   #– #so God relented from the disaster  he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.