And the word
of the LORD
came unto Jonah
the second
time, saying,
Arise,
go
unto Nineveh,
that great
city,
and preach
unto it the preaching
that I bid
thee.
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.
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.
say
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.
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.
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:
graze
νεμέσθωσαν
nemesthōsan
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.
Who can tell
if God
will turn
and repent,
and turn away
from his fierce
anger,
that we perish
not?
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.
