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Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: |
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“Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” |
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Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. |
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Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” |
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The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. |
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When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. |
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This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. |
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But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. |
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Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” |
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When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. |
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