| Chapter 3 |
| 1 | And the word of the LORD 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 the LORD. 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 | So the people of Nineveh
believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of
them even to the least of them. |
| 6 | For word came unto the king of
Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and
covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. |
| 7 | And he caused
it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and
his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing:
let them not feed, nor drink water: |
| 8 | But let man and beast be
covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one
from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. |
| 9 |
Who can tell if God will 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, that he had said that he
would do unto them; and he did it not. |
