¹And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time and said, ²Arise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am speaking to you. ³So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, it being three days' journey round its perimeter. ⁴And Jonah began to go into the city, making a day's journey, and he made a proclamation and said, “There are forty days to go, then Nineveh will be overturned.” ⁵And the men of Nineveh believed God, and they called a fast, and they put on sackcloth, both great and small. ⁶And the matter reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose up from his throne and removed his robe and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷And he made a pronouncement and announced in Nineveh by decree of the king and his nobles and said, “Let man, and cattle, and oxen, and sheep not taste anything, nor feed, and let them not drink water. ⁸But let man and cattle be covered in sackcloth, and let them call out to God in strength of mind, and let each man turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in their hands. ⁹Who knows whether God will turn and repent and turn from the fury of his anger, so that we do not perish.” ¹⁰And God saw their deeds – that they had turned from their evil way – and God repented of the harm which he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.