Thematic Bible
Jonah 3:1 (show verse)
And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second [time], saying,
Jonah 3:2 (show verse)
"Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I [am] telling you."
Jonah 3:3 (show verse)
So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was {an extraordinarily great city}--a journey of three days [across].
Jonah 3:4 (show verse)
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!"
Jonah 3:5 (show verse)
And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth--from the greatest of them {to the least important}.
Jonah 3:6 (show verse)
And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
Jonah 3:7 (show verse)
And he had a proclamation made, and said, "In Nineveh, by a decree of the king and his nobles: "No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything! They must not eat, and they must not drink water!
Jonah 3:8 (show verse)
And [the] human beings and [the] animals must be covered [with] sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jonah 3:9 (show verse)
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn {from his blazing anger} {so that} we will not perish."
Jonah 3:10 (show verse)
And God saw their deeds--that they turned from their evil ways--and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said [he would] bring upon them, and he did not do [it].