3:1 Then
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Jonah
the
second
time,
saying,
3:2 "Arise,
go
to
Nineveh,
that
great
city,
and
call
out
against
it
the
message
that
I
tell
you."
3:3 So
Jonah
arose
and
went
to
Nineveh,
according
to
the
word
of
the
LORD.
Now
Nineveh
was
an
exceedingly
great
city,
three
days'
journey
in
breadth.
3:4 Jonah
began
to
go
into
the
city,
going
a
day's
journey.
And
he
called
out,
"Yet
forty
days,
and
Nineveh
shall
be
overthrown!"
3:5 And
the
people
of
Nineveh
believed
God.
They
called
for
a
fast
and
put
on
sackcloth,
from
the
greatest
of
them
to
the
least
of
them.
3:6 The
word
reached
the
king
of
Nineveh,
and
he
arose
from
his
throne,
removed
his
robe,
covered
himself
with
sackcloth,
and
sat
in
ashes.
3:7 And
he
issued
a
proclamation
and
published
through
Nineveh,
"By
the
decree
of
the
king
and
his
nobles:
Let
neither
man
nor
beast,
herd
nor
flock,
taste
anything.
Let
them
not
feed
or
drink
water,
3:8 but
let
man
and
beast
be
covered
with
sackcloth,
and
let
them
call
out
mightily
to
God.
Let
everyone
turn
from
his
evil
way
and
from
the
violence
that
is
in
his
hands.
3:9 Who
knows
God
may
turn
and
relent
and
turn
from
his
fierce
anger,
so
that
we
may
not
perish."
3:10 When
God
saw
what
they
did,
how
they
turned
from
their
evil
way,
God
relented
of
the
disaster
that
he
had
said
he
would
do
to
them,
and
he
did
not
do
it.