Jonah Chapter 3

• Jonah 3:1
  Jonah.
• Jonah 3:2
  The LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
• Jonah 3:3
  “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
• Jonah 3:4
  So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
• Jonah 3:5
  Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
• Jonah 3:6
  The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
• Jonah 3:7
  The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
• Jonah 3:8
  He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, ta...
• Jonah 3:9
  but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from ...
• Jonah 3:10
  Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
• Jonah 3:11
  God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.