Jonah 3:1-10

English Standard Version (Chapter 3)

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to lNineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time saying:

Arise, go to Nineveh

That great city

Call out against it the message that I tell you

English Standard Version (Chapter 3)

3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now lNineveh was an exceedingly great city,1 three days’ journey in breadth.2 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 mAnd the people of Nineveh believed God. nThey called for a fast and oput on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

So 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

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey

He called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

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.

English Standard Version (Chapter 3)

6 The word reached3 the king of Nineveh, and phe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, qand sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, r“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor sbeast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and sbeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. tLet everyone turn from his evil way and from uthe violence that is in his hands. 9 vWho knows? God may turn and relent wand turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

The word reached the king of Nineveh:

He arose from his throne

Removed his robe

Covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

He issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh

By the decree of the king and his nobles:

Let neither man or beast herd nor flock, taste anything

Let them not feed or drink water,

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

Who knows? God may turn

Relent wand turn from his fierce anger

So that we may not perish

English Standard Version (Chapter 3)

10 When 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.

When 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

He did not do it.