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Jonah 3 NIV
1 Then the word of the LORD
came to Jonah a second time:
2 "Go to the great city of
Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now
Nineveh was a very important city—a visit required three days.
4 On the first day, Jonah
started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh
will be overturned."
5 The Ninevites believed God.
They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the
least, put on sackcloth.
6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his
throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and
sat down in the dust.
7 Then he issued a proclamation
in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let
any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat
or drink.
8 But let man and beast be
covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them
give up their evil ways and their violence.
9 Who knows? God may yet relent
and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not
perish."
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their
evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the
destruction he had threatened.
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