Jonah 3
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And the word of YHWH came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid you.
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So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of YHWH. Now Nineveh was
an exceeding great city, of three days` journey.
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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day`s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet
forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
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And 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.
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And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid
his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and
his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let
them not feed, nor drink water;
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but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily
to God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that
is in his hands.
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Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger,
that we perish not?
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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of
the evil which he said he would do to them; and he did it not.