1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time saying, 2 "Arise, go to Ninevah, the great city and proclaim against her the proclamation which I am speaking to you."
3 And Jonah rose and went to Ninevah according to the word of the Lord. And Ninevah was an exceedingly great city, a journey of three days. 4 And Jonah began to go into the city one days journey, and he called and he said, "Yet forty days and Ninevah will be overturned."5 The men of Ninevah believed in God and they proclaimed a fast and they put on sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6 The word reached to the king of Ninevah, and he rose from his throne and he removed his cloak from upon him, and he covered himself with sackcloth and he sat down in ashes. 7 And he had a proclaimation made saying, "In Ninevah from the decree of the king and his officials: 'Man and beast, herd and sheep, they shall not taste anything, they shall not pasture, and they shall not drink water. 8 And they will cover themselves with sackcloth man and beast, and they will call to God with steadfastness and they will turn each man from his evil path and from the violence which is in the palms of their hands. 9 Who knows? God may relent and he may turn from the burning of his anger and we may not perish.'"
10 And God saw their deeds for they turned from their evil way, and God relented from the disaster which he had said he would do to them he did not do.
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