Jonah 3 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Nineveh Repents

Jon 3:1And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

Jon 3:2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jon 3:3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.

Jon 3:4

Jon 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Jon 3:5

Jon 3:5And 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.

Jon 3:6

Jon 3:6And 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.

Jon 3:7

Jon 3:7And 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 anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

Jon 3:8

Jon 3:8but 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 his hands.

Jon 3:9

Jon 3:9Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jon 3:10

Jon 3:10And 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.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Jonah 3 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Nineveh Repents

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