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Dios llama y Jonás obedece

El SEÑOR habló por segunda vez con Jonás y le dijo: «Anda, ve a la gran ciudad de Nínive y avisa lo que te voy a decir».

Jonás obedeció al SEÑOR y se fue para Nínive, una ciudad tan grande que se necesitaban tres días para recorrerla.[a] Al llegar, Jonás recorrió la ciudad todo un día anunciando a gran voz: «¡Nínive será destruida dentro de 40 días!»

La gente de Nínive le creyó a Dios, anunciaron ayuno y desde el más importante hasta el más humilde se vistieron con ropa áspera. Cuando el rey de Nínive se enteró de la noticia, se levantó del trono, se quitó sus vestidos reales, se puso ropa áspera y se sentó sobre cenizas. Entonces el rey dio a conocer esta orden a todo el pueblo:

«Por orden del rey y sus altos funcionarios:

»Ninguna persona o animal, ni ganado ni rebaño, probará alimento alguno, ni pastará ni tomará agua. Al contrario, que se cubran todos, hombres y animales, con ropa áspera. Rueguen a Dios con todas sus fuerzas. Deje cada uno su mala conducta y abandone la violencia que ha estado cometiendo. ¡Quién sabe! Tal vez Dios cambie de parecer, calme el ardor de su ira y así no tengamos que morir».

10 Dios vio lo que hicieron, se dio cuenta que dejaban su mala conducta, entonces cambió de parecer respecto al castigo que les tenía preparado y no lo llevó a cabo.

Footnotes

  1. 3:3 se necesitaban […] recorrerla o requería una visita de tres días.

Jonah Preaches at Nineveh

The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three-day journey across. Jonah began to enter the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “In forty days’ time, Nineveh will be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast. And everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh:

“By decree of the king and his nobles:

No man or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not eat or drink water. Both man and animals shall cover themselves with sackcloth and cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knows? God may relent and change His mind. He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

10 When God saw their actions, that they turned from their evil ways, He changed His mind about the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

Jonah Preaches at Nineveh

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, [a]a three-day journey in extent. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then (A)he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

The People of Nineveh Believe

So the (B)people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth (C)and sat in ashes. (D)And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his [b]nobles, saying,

Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, (E)let every one turn from his evil way and from (F)the violence that is in his hands. (G)Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

10 (H)Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:3 Exact meaning unknown
  2. Jonah 3:7 Lit. great ones