Jonah 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.
