| New International Version | Holman Christian Standard 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." | 2Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell 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. | 3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the LORD's command. Now Nineveh was an extremely large city, a three-day walk. |
| 4Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown." | 4Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, "In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished!" |
| 5The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. | 5The men of Nineveh believed in 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, put on 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 decree in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. |
| 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, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing. |
| 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 burning 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. | 10Then God saw their actions--that they had turned from their evil ways--so God relented from the disaster He had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it. |
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