Jonah:3

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* Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time , saying , * "Arise , go to Nineveh , that great city , and preach to it the message that I tell you ." * So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh , according to the word of the LORD . Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city , a three-day journey in extent . * And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day 's walk . Then he cried out and said , "Yet forty days , and Nineveh shall be overthrown !" * So the people of Nineveh believed God , proclaimed a fast , and put on sackcloth , from the greatest to the least of them . * Then word came to the king of Nineveh ; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe , covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes . * And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles , saying , Let neither man nor beast , herd nor flock , taste anything ; do not let them eat , or drink water . * But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth , and cry mightily to God ; yes , let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands . * Who can tell if God will turn and relent , and turn away from His fierce anger , so that we may not perish ? * Then God saw their works , that they turned from their evil way ; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them , and He did not do it .

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