Jonah:3

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* The word of Jehovah came to Jonah a second time : * »Arise and go to the great city , Nineveh . Proclaim to it the proclamation I give you .« * So Jonah arose , and went to Nineveh , according to the word of Jehovah . Nineveh was a very important and large city , a three days ' walk . * Jonah began to enter into the city , a day 's journey walking , and he shouted : »Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days .« * The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast , and put on sackcloth , from the greatest of them even to the least of them . * The news reached the king of Nineveh . He left his throne , and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth . Then he sat in ashes . * He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles , saying : »Let neither man nor beast , herd nor flock , taste anything ; let them not eat , nor drink water . * »Let them be covered with sackcloth , both man and beast . Let them sincerely call on God ! Let them turn away each one from his evil way , and from the violence that is in his hands . * »Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind , and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish ?« * God saw their works ! That they turned from their evil way . God turned back from the deed that he said he would do to them . He did not do it .

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