Jonah:3

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drb @Jonah:3:1 @And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time , saying : drb @Jonah:3:2 @Arise , and go to Ninive the great city : and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee . drb @Jonah:3:3 @And Jonas arose , and went to Ninive , according to the word of the Lord : now Ninive was a great city of three days ' journey . drb @Jonah:3:4 @And Jonas began to enter into the city one day 's journey : and he cried , and said : Yet forty days , and Ninive shall be destroyed . drb @Jonah:3:5 @And the men of Ninive believed in God : and they proclaimed a fast , and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least . drb @Jonah:3:6 @And the word came to the king of Ninive ; and he rose up out of his throne , and cast away his robe from him , and was clothed with sackcloth , and sat in ashes . drb @Jonah:3:7 @And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes , saying : Let neither men nor beasts , oxen nor sheep , taste any thing : let them not feed , nor drink water . drb @Jonah:3:8 @And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth , and cry to the Lord with all their strength , and let them turn every one from his evil way , and from the iniquity that is in their hands . drb @Jonah:3:9 @Who can tell if God will turn , and forgive : and will turn away from his fierce anger , and we shall not perish ? drb @Jonah:3:10 @And God saw their works , that they were turned from their evil way : and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them , and he did it not

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