Thematic Bible
Jonah 3:1 (show verse)
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jonah 3:2 (show verse)
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah 3:3 (show verse)
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days journey.
Jonah 3:4 (show verse)
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.
Jonah 3:5 (show verse)
And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jonah 3:6 (show verse)
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah 3:7 (show verse)
And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Jonah 3:8 (show verse)
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jonah 3:9 (show verse)
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jonah 3:10 (show verse)
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.