Jonah 3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
Jonah 3:2 Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.'
Jonah 3:3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.
Jonah 3:4 Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, 'Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.'
Jonah 3:5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
Jonah 3:6 When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
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Jonah 3:8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
Jonah 3:9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.'
Jonah 3:10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.