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

Now 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 the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to 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, a three days’ walk.

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.'

Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will 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,

Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest 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,

When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the 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;

He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or 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 both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which 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 knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

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.

When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.