| New International Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: | 1Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: |
| 2"Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you." | 2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.” |
| 3Jonah 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. | 3This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey. |
| 4Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown." | 4On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!” |
| 5The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. | 5And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. |
| 6When 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. | 6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. |
| 7This 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. | 7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink. |
| 8But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. | 8Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands. |
| 9Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish." | 9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.” |
| 10When 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. | 10When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them. |
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