| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 1Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, | 1This message from the LORD came to Jonah a second time: |
| 2"Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you." | 2"Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you." |
| 3So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk. | 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. |
| 4Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown." | 4As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!" |
| 5Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. | 5The people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important. |
| 6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. | 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. |
| 7He issued a proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. | 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. |
| 8"But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. | 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. |
| 9"Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish." | 9Who knows but that God may relent, have compassion, and turn from his fierce anger, so that we are not exterminated?" |
| 10When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. | 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. |
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