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JONAH
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Chapter 3
Jona NHEB 3:1  The word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Jona NHEB 3:2  "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I give you."
Jona NHEB 3:3  So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.
Jona NHEB 3:4  Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
Jona NHEB 3:5  The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jona NHEB 3:6  The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jona NHEB 3:7  He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Jona NHEB 3:8  but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jona NHEB 3:9  Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
Jona NHEB 3:10  God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.