1
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2
"Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."
3
So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days' walk across.
4
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's walk. And he cried out, "Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
5
And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.
6
When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7
Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water.