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Jonah 3 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:1 - The LORD said to Jonah a second time,
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:2 - "Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the LORD had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city - it required three days to walk through it!)
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - He issued a proclamation and said, "In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die."
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:10 - When God saw their actions - they turned from their evil way of living! - God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.
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