The Witnesses Resurrected

^11 (A)Now after the three-and-a-half days ^(B)the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. ¹² And ^[a]they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” ^(C)And they ascended to heaven ^(D)in a cloud, ^(E)and their enemies saw them. ¹³ In the same hour ^(F)there was a great earthquake, ^(G)and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid ^(H)and gave glory to the God of heaven.

^14 (I)The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed

¹⁵ Then ^(J)the seventh angel sounded: ^(K)And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ^(L)“The ^[b]kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, ^(M)and He shall reign forever and ever!” ¹⁶ And ^(N)the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and ^(O)worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying:

¹⁹ Then ^(T)the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of ^[e]His covenant was seen in His temple. And ^(U)there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, ^(V)and great hail.

Jonah Preaches at Nineveh

3 Now 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 message that I tell you.” ³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, ^[a]a three-day journey in extent. ⁴ And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then ^(A)he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

The People of Nineveh Believe

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

^10 (H)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.

Jonah’s Anger and God’s Kindness

4 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry. ² So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I ^(I)fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a ^(J)gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm. ^3 (K)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for ^(L)it is better for me to die than to live!”

⁴ Then the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

⁵ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city. ⁶ And the Lord God prepared a ^[c]plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah ^[d]was very grateful for the plant. ⁷ But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered. ⁸ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, ^(M)“It is better for me to die than to live.”

⁹ Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”

And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death!”

¹⁰ But the Lord said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which ^[e]came up in a night and perished in a night. ¹¹ And should I not pity Nineveh, ^(N)that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons ^(O)who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”