1 A nd the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

2 A rise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3 S o Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

4 A nd Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5 S o the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 F or word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 A nd he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8 b ut let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

9 W ho can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10 A nd God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.