And the
word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time,
saying,
02 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and
preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
03 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh,
according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh
was an exceeding great city of three days'
journey.
04 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.
05 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and
proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the
greatest of them even to the least of them.
06 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he
arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from
him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in
ashes.
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07 And he caused it to be proclaimed and
published through Nineveh by the decree of the
king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor
beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them
not feed, nor drink water:
08 But let man and beast be covered with
sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let
them turn every one from his evil way, and from
the violence that is in their hands.
09 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and
turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish
not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from
their evil way; and God repented of the evil,
that he had said that he would do unto them; and
he did it not.
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