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| 1This message from the LORD came to Jonah a second time: | 1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: |
| 2"Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you." | 2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.” |
| 3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh to do what the LORD had ordered. Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross through it. | 3This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey. |
| 4As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!" | 4On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!” |
| 5The people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important. | 5And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. |
| 6When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes. | 6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. |
| 7Then he had this proclamation published throughout Nineveh: "By decree of the king and his nobles: No man or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything, graze, or drink water. | 7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink. |
| 8Instead, let both man and animal clothe themselves with sackcloth and cry out to God forcefully. Let every person turn from his evil ways and from his tendency to do violence. | 8Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands. |
| 9Who knows but that God may relent, have compassion, and turn from his fierce anger, so that we are not exterminated?" | 9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.” |
| 10God took note of what they did—that they turned from their evil ways. Because God relented concerning the trouble about which he had warned them, he did not carry it out. | 10When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them. |
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