⁵ For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—

² “Arise, go to ^(A)Nineveh, that ^(B)great city, and call out against it, ^(C)for their evil^[a] has come up before me.”

^17 (A)delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—^(B)to whom I ^(C)am sending you ^18 (D)to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from ^(E)the power of Satan to God, that they may receive ^(F)forgiveness of sins and ^(G)a place among those who are sanctified ^(H)by faith in me.’

² “Arise, go to ^(A)Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” ³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now ^(B)Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,^[a] three days' journey in breadth.^{[b] 4} Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

⁶ not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. ^(A)Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.