Thomson(i)
1 Then a word of the Lord came to Jonas a second time saying,
2 " Arise and go to Ninive that great city, and proclaim in it according to the former proclamation which I spoke to thee."
3 So Jonas arose and went to Ninive as the Lord had spoken. Now Ninive was an exceeding great city, of about three days' journey.
4 And Jonas began at his entering the city, and for about one day's journey cried with a loud voice and said, "Yet three days and Ninive shall be destroyed"
5 And the men of Ninive believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
6 When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
7 And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water.
8 So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying,
9 "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways. And God relented at the evil which he said he would do to them, and did it not.