Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And Jonah will begin to go in to the city the going of one day, and he will call, and say, Yet forty days and Nineveh being overthrown.
New American Standard Bible
Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,
International Standard Version
Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross through it. As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!"
A Conservative Version
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Then on the first day’s walk, Jonah
Bible in Basic English
And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
Darby Translation
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!
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!"
Modern King James verseion
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!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Jonah went to and entered into the city even a day's journey, and cried, saying, "There shall not pass forty days but Nineveh shall be overthrown."
NET Bible
When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
New Heart English Bible
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
The Emphasized Bible
So Jonah began to enter into the city, one day's journey, - and he cried out and said - Yet forty days, and, Nineveh, is to be overthrown!
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'
Themes
Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Christian ministers » Success attending » Jonah
Days » Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles
Days » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Forty » Days » Of probation, given to the ninevites
Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Nineveh » Jonah sent to proclaim the destruction of
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Revivals » Instances of » In nineveh
Topics
Interlinear
Chalal
'echad
Yowm
Yowm
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jonah 3:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Of Nineveh Repent At Jonah's Proclamation
3 And Jonah will rise and go to Nineveh according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a great city to God, the going of three days. 4 And Jonah will begin to go in to the city the going of one day, and he will call, and say, Yet forty days and Nineveh being overthrown. 5 And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:22
The prophet who shall speak in the name of Jehovah, and the word. shall not be and shall not come, it is the word that Jehovah spake not; in pride the prophet spake it: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Jeremiah 18:7-10
The moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy:
2 Kings 20:1
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death; and Isaiah son of Amos the prophet will come in to him, and he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou art dying, and thou shalt not live.
2 Kings 20:6
And I added to thy days fifteen years; and from the hand of the king of Assur I will deliver thee and this city; and I protected this city for my sake, and for sake of David my servant
Jonah 3:10
And God will see their works that they turned back from their evil way, and God will lament for the evil which he spake to do to them: and he did it not