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Nineveh Repents

¹ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,² "Arise, go to ^(C1)Nineveh, the great city, and ^(C2)proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you."³ So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was ^(F1)an ^(C1)exceedingly large city, a three days' walk.⁴ Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he ^(C1)cried out and said, "Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overthrown."

⁵ Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a ^(C1)fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.⁶ When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his robe from himself, ^(C1)covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ^(F1)dust.⁷ And he issued a ^(C1)proclamation, and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: No person, animal, herd, or flock is to taste anything. They are not to eat, or drink water.⁸ "But every person and animal must be covered with sackcloth; and people are to ^(C1)call on God vehemently, and they are to ^(C2)turn, each one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.⁹ "^(C1)Who knows, God may turn and relent, and turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish."

¹⁰ When God saw their deeds, that they ^(C1)turned from their evil way, then ^(C2)God relented of the disaster which He had declared He would ^(F1)bring on them. So He did not do it.