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Jonah Goes to Nineveh
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Jonah Goes to Nineveh
Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:
Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”
“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”
And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
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.
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.
And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,
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.
“No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all.
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
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.
Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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.