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Jonah 3 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Jonah Goes to Nineveh

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:1 - Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:2 - “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:10 - When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
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Jonah Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

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