Jonah 3:1-5

Christian Standard Bible

Jonah’s Preaching

3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:^{(A) 2} “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh^(B) and preach^(C) the message that I tell you.” ³ Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.

Now Nineveh was an extremely great city,^[a](D) a three-day walk. ⁴ Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed,^(E) “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!” ⁵ Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast^(F) and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.