Jonah 3:4-9 And Jonah began to go through the city one day’s journey, and he called out, and said, Yet forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ And Jonah began to go through the city one day’s journey, and he called out, and said, Yet forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. ⁵ And the men of Nineveh believed in God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. ⁶ For when the matter was come unto the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down on ashes. ⁷ And he caused to be proclaimed and he published through Nineveh, By the decree of the king and his chief men, it is said, Neither man nor beast, neither herds nor flocks, shall taste any thing; they shall not feed, nor drink water; ⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let men call unto God with might; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands. ⁹ Who knoweth, but God may turn and bethink himself, and turn away from the fierceness of his anger, that we perish not?