Jonah proclaims God’s message in Nineveh
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📚And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time✭, saying, 2 📚“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you✭”.3 📚So Jonah arose and went✭ to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, three days✭’ journey in size. 4 📚✭And Jonah began to go into the city on the first day’s journey, and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh will be overthrown!”
5 📚✭So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth✭, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
The king repents and tells his people to show their repentance
6 📚✭For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid aside his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes✭. 7 📚And by the decree of the king and his nobles, he caused this proclamation to be published throughout Nineveh, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not eat or drink✭ water, 8 📚But have man and beast covered with sackcloth, and cry out mightily to God. Yes, have every one of them turn from his evil way✭, and from the violence of their hands. 9 📚Who can tell✭ but that God may turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish?”
God shows His forgiving nature and relents
10 📚✭And God saw their deeds, that they turned from their evil way, and God relented✭ concerning the harm that he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.