Jonah 3

Nineveh Repents

1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2“Arise, go to 1Nineveh, the great city, and 2proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.” 3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was 3an 4exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk. 4Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he 5cried out and said, “Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

5Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a 6fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his robe from himself, 7covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the 8dust. 7And he issued a 9proclamation, and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: No person, animal, herd, or flock is to taste anything. They are not to eat, or drink water. 8But every person and animal must be covered with sackcloth; and people are to 10call on God vehemently, and they are to 11turn, each one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands. 912Who knows, God may turn and relent, and turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

10When God saw their deeds, that they 13turned from their evil way, then 14God relented of the disaster which He had declared He would 15bring on them. So He did not do it.