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| 3:1 |
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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| 3:2 |
'Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.'
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| 3:3 |
So Jonah arose and went to Nin'eveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
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| 3:4 |
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, 'Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!'
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| 3:5 |
And the people of Nin'eveh believed God;they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
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| 3:6 |
Then tidings reached the king of Nin'eveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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| 3:7 |
And he made proclamation and published through Nin'eveh, 'By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything;let them not feed, or drink water,
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| 3:8 |
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God;yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
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| 3:9 |
Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?'
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| 3:10 |
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them;and he did not do it.
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