Jonah 3:1WEB
Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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Jonah 3:1WEB
Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 3:2WEB
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
Jonah 3:3WEB
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 3:4WEB
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:5WEB
The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
Jonah 3:6WEB
The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah 3:7WEB
He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Jonah 3:8WEB
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jonah 3:9WEB
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
Jonah 3:10WEB
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.