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Jonah 3 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

Jon 3:1

Jon 3:1Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:

Jon 3:2

Jon 3:2“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”

Jon 3:3

Jon 3:3This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.[fn]

Jon 3:4

Jon 3:4On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”

Jon 3:5

Jon 3:5The 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.

Jon 3:6

Jon 3:6When 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.

Jon 3:7

Jon 3:7Then 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.

Jon 3:8

Jon 3:8People 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.

Jon 3:9

Jon 3:9Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”

Jon 3:10

Jon 3:10When 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.
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NLT Footnotes
Hebrew a great city to God, of three days’ journey.
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