Jonah 3

And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, ²Arise, go unto ^aNineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. ³So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now ^aNineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. ⁴And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and ^bNineveh shall be overthrown. ⁵So ^cthe people of Nineveh believed God, and ^dproclaimed a fast, and ^eput on sackcloth, ^ffrom the greatest of them even to the least of them. ⁶For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and ^ghe arose from his throne, and he laid ^hhis robe from him, and ^eicovered him with sackcloth, and ^ijsat in ashes. ⁷And he ^kcaused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by ^lthe decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor ^mbeast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: ⁸But let man and beast ^ebe covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, ⁿlet them turn every one from his evil way, and from ^othe violence that is in their hands. ^9pqWho can tell if God will turn ^qand repent, and ^rturn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? ¹⁰And God saw their works, that ^nsthey turned from their evil way; and ^stGod repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

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