KJ3 Literal Translation
Jonah 3
Jonah preaches to the Ninevites.
1And the Word of Jehovah was to Jonah the second time, saying,
2Rise up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am declaring to you.
3And Jonah rose up and went to Nineveh according to the Word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a great city to God, of three days' journey.
4And Jonah began to enter a day's journey into the city. And he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overturned!
5And the men of Nineveh believed in God, and they called a fast and put on sackclothes, from the greatest even to the least of them.
6And the word touched even to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he passed his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.
7And he cried and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and of his great ones, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them feed nor let them drink water.
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. And let them call with strength to God. And let them each man turn back from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their palms.
9Who knows? He may turn, and God may be moved to pity and turn back from the anger of His face, that we will not perish.
10And God saw their deeds, that they turned back from their evil way. And God was moved to pity of the evil that He had spoken to do to them, and He did not do it.
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