And he said unto them, A Hebrew, am I, - and, Yahweh, the God of the heavens, do, I, revere, him who made the sea, and the dry land.

They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.

Who knoweth whether God himself - may turn and grieve, - and turn away from the glow of his anger, that we perish not?

And was not, I, to spare Nineveh, the great city, - wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand human beings, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, besides much cattle?