Jonah 3:5-10

New King James Version

The People of Nineveh Believe

⁵So the ^(A)people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. ⁶Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth ^(B)and sat in ashes. ⁷^(C)And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his ^[a]nobles, saying,

Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. ⁸But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, ^(D)let every one turn from his evil way and from ^(E)the violence that is in his hands. ⁹^(F)Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

¹⁰^(G)Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

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