Jonah 3

¹Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying ,

²Arise , go to Nineveh , that great city , and call out against it the message that I tell you .

³So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh , according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city , three days ’ journey in breadth.

⁴Jonah began to go into the city , going a day’s journey . And he called out, Yet forty days , and Nineveh shall be overthrown !

⁵And the people of Nineveh believed God . They called for a fast and put on sackcloth , from the greatest of them to the least of them.

⁶The word reached the king of Nineveh , and he arose from his throne , removed his robe , covered himself with sackcloth , and sat in ashes .

⁷And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh , 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 ,

⁸but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth , and let them call out mightily to God . Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands .

⁹Who knows ? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger , so that we may not perish .

¹⁰When God saw what they did , how they turned from their evil way , God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.