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title: Jonah 3
slug: kjv/jonah-3
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:18:12.352Z
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**1 **And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, **2 **Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. **3 **So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. **4 **And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

**5 **So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. **6 **For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered *him* with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. **7 **And he caused *it* to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: **8 **But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that *is* in their hands. **9 **Who can tell *if* God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

**10 **And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did *it* not.