Jonah 3
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- 1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
- 2"Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Deliver the message I give you."
- 3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a journey of three days.
- 4Jonah began to enter the city, going a day's journey in, and he cried out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
- 5The people of Nineveh believed God. They declared a fast, and everyone — from the greatest to the least — put on sackcloth.
- 6When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.
- 7Then he and his nobles issued an official decree throughout the city: "No person or animal — not even the herds or flocks — is to eat or drink anything.
- 8Every person and every animal must be covered in sackcloth. Everyone must cry out to God with everything they have. Each person must turn away from their evil ways and from the violence they've been doing.
- 9Who knows? Perhaps God will change his mind and turn from his fierce anger, so that we don't perish."
- 10God saw their actions, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.