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This 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.
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But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
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Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”