| Chapter 3
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| 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. |
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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. |
