Jonah 3
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that
I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now
Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and
said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on
sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and
laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the
king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste
anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry
mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the
violence that is in his hands.
9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.