Jonah 3

Revised Geneva Translation

3 And the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

² “Arise. Go to Nineveh, that great city; and preach to it the preaching which I command you.”

³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of the LORD. Now, Nineveh was a large 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 to the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne. And he laid his robe aside and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.

⁷ And he proclaimed and said through Nineveh, (by the counsel of the king and his nobles) saying, “Let neither man nor beast, bullock nor sheep, taste anything nor feed nor drink water.

⁸ “But let man and beast put on sackcloth and cry mightily to God. Indeed, let every man turn from his evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands.

⁹ “Who can tell if God will turn and have compassion and turn away from His fierce wrath, so that we do not perish?”

¹⁰ And God saw their works — that they turned from their evil ways — and God turned from of the evil that He had said that He would do to them; and He did it not.