Jonah 3 : 1 (RV)
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jonah 3 : 2 (RV)
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah 3 : 3 (RV)
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days� journey.
Jonah 3 : 4 (RV)
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day�s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah 3 : 5 (RV)
And 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.
Jonah 3 : 6 (RV)
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah 3 : 7 (RV)
And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Jonah 3 : 8 (RV)
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jonah 3 : 9 (RV)
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jonah 3 : 10 (RV)
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
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