1 A nd there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

2 ` Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach and cry out to it the preaching that I tell you.

3 a nd Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

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

4 A nd Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

5 A nd the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

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

6 s eeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,

For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe aside, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 a nd he crieth and saith in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, `Man and beast, herd and flock -- let them not taste anything, let them not feed, even water let them not drink;

And he made 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 nor drink water.

8 a nd cover themselves sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that in their hands.

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

9 W ho knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'

Who can tell, God may turn and revoke His sentence against us, and turn away from His fierce anger so that we perish not.

10 A nd God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God revoked His evil that He had said that He would do to them and He did not do it.