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Jonah 3 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Jonah Goes to Nineveh
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:1 - Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:2 - “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: “No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:10 - When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew a great city to God, of three days’ journey.
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