² “Go to the great city of Nineveh^(A) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria,^(A) where he built Nineveh,^(B) Rehoboth Ir,^[a] Calah

Assyria

1 A prophecy^(A) concerning Nineveh.^(B) The book of the vision^(C) of Nahum the Elkoshite.

¹¹ And should I not have concern^(A) for the great city of Nineveh,^(B) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

² “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

⁵ You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language,^(A) but to the people of Israel— ⁶ not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.^{(B) 7} But the people of Israel are not willing to listen^(C) to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.^{(D) 8} But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.^{(E) 9} I will make your forehead^(F) like the hardest stone, harder than flint.^(G) Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.^(H)”

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