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          DASV: Jonah 3

1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 "Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it
the message that I tell you."
3 So Jonah got up, and went to Nineveh, according to the word
of the LORD. Now Nineveh was a very great city, taking three
days to walk through it.
4 When Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey,
he cried out, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown."
5 Now the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a
fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least
of them.

6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from
his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth
and sat in ashes.
7 He issued a proclamation and published it throughout Nineveh:
"By the decree of the king and his nobles: let no person or
animal, no herd or flock, taste anything. Do not let them
eat anything or drink water.
8 Let every person and animal be covered with sackcloth,
and let them cry earnestly to God. Let everyone of them turn
from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 Who knows, perhaps God will relent and change his mind,
and turn away from his fierce anger so that we do not perish?"
10 When God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way,
God changed his mind about the disaster which he said he would
do to them and he did it not do it.
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