Jonah 3 (NET)

Jonah 3:1¹The Lord’ s message came to Jonah a second time,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:2²“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:3³So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, in keeping with the Lord’ s message. Now Nineveh was an enormous city —it required three days to walk through it!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:4⁴Jonah began to enter the city by going one day’s walk, announcing, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:5⁵The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:6⁶When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:7⁷He issued a proclamation and said, “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:8⁸Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:9⁹Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Jonah 3:10¹⁰When God saw their actions—that they turned from their evil way of living. —God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and did not destroy them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s