约拿书 3

Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition

约拿顺服耶和华

3 耶和华的话第二次临到约拿，说： ²“起来，到尼尼微大城去，把我告诉你的信息向其中的居民宣告。” ³约拿就照耶和华的话起来，到尼尼微去。尼尼微是一座极大的城，约有三天的路程。 ⁴约拿进城，走了一天，宣告说：“再过四十天，尼尼微要倾覆了！” ⁵尼尼微人就信服　神，宣告禁食，从最大的到最小的都穿上麻衣。

⁶这消息传到尼尼微王那里，他就从宝座起来，脱下朝服，披上麻布，坐在灰中。 ⁷他叫人通告尼尼微全城，说：“王和大臣有令，人、畜、牛、羊都不可尝任何东西，不可吃，也不可喝水。 ⁸人与牲畜都要披上麻布，切切求告　神。各人要回转离开恶道，离弃自己掌中的残暴。 ⁹谁知道　神也许会回心转意，不发烈怒，使我们不致灭亡。”

¹⁰　神察看他们的行为，见他们离开恶道，　神就改变心意，原先所说要降与他们的灾难，他不降了。

Jonah 3

International Standard Version

The Lord Again Calls Jonah to Go to Nineveh

3 This message from the Lord came to Jonah a second time: ²“Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” ³So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh to do what the Lord had ordered.

Now Nineveh was a very large city,^[a] requiring^[b] a three-day journey to cross through it.^[c] ⁴As Jonah started into the city on the first day’s journey, he proclaimed the message, “40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!”

The City of Nineveh Repents

⁵The people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important. ⁶When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes. ⁷Then he had this proclamation published throughout Nineveh:

“By decree of the king and his nobles:

No man or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything, graze, or drink water. ⁸Instead, let both man and animal clothe themselves with sackcloth and cry out to God forcefully. Let every person turn from his evil ways and from his tendency to do violence.^[d] ⁹Who knows but that God may relent, have compassion, and turn from his fierce anger, so that we are not exterminated?”

¹⁰God took note of what they did—that they turned from their evil ways. Because God relented concerning the trouble about which he had warned them, he did not carry it out.

Footnotes

Jonah 3:3 Lit. a great city of God; i.e. a city of enormous size
Jonah 3:3 The Heb. lacks requiring
Jonah 3:3 The Heb. lacks to cross through it
Jonah 3:8 Lit. from the violence that is in their palms

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