^1. NOW the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

^2. «Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.»

^3. So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was [1] an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk.

^4. 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. 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. 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 [2] ashes.

^7. 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. «But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let [4] men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in [3] his hands.

^9. « Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.»

^10. When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would [5] bring upon them. And He did not do it.