Jonah 3
Lexham English Bible
The People of Nineveh Repent at Jonah’s Proclamation
3 And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 “Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am telling you.” 3 So Jonah got up[a] and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an extraordinarily great city[b]—a journey of three days across.[c] 4 And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!”[d] 5 And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least important.[e]
The King’s Proclamation
6 And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes. 7 And he had a proclamation made, and said,
“In Nineveh, by a decree of the king and his nobles:
“No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything! They must not eat, and they must not drink water! 8 And the human beings and the animals must be covered with sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his[f] hands. 9 Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn from his blazing anger[g] so that[h] we will not perish.”
10 And God saw their deeds—that they turned from their evil ways—and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.[i]
Footnotes
- Jonah 3:3 Or “set out”
- Jonah 3:3 Literally “a great city to God” or “a great city to the gods,” a disputed phrase which may refer to God’s estimate or ownership of Nineveh, to the presence of many idols, or an idiom referring to the size of Nineveh (this translation takes the last view)
- Jonah 3:3 This phrase may also refer to a journey on which business was done, so that “three days” is the total elapsed time
- Jonah 3:4 Or “overthrown”
- Jonah 3:5 Literally “to the smallest of them”
- Jonah 3:8 Hebrew “their”
- Jonah 3:9 Literally “from the heat of his anger”
- Jonah 3:9 Hebrew “and”
- Jonah 3:10 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
Jonas 3
Ang Pulong Sang Dios
Nagkadto si Jonas sa Nineve
3 Naghambal liwat ang Ginoo kay Jonas. 2 Siling niya, “Magkadto ka gilayon sa Nineve, ang dako nga siyudad, kag isugid sa mga tawo didto ang mensahi nga ginhatag ko sa imo.” 3 Sa gilayon nagkadto si Jonas sa Nineve suno sa ginsiling sang Ginoo. Dako gid nga siyudad ang Nineve; mga tatlo ini ka adlaw kon lakton.
4 Nagsulod si Jonas sa Nineve. Kag pagkatapos sang isa ka adlaw nga pagpanglakaton, nagsiling siya sa mga tawo didto, “40 ka adlaw na lang ang nabilin kag pagalaglagon ang Nineve!”
5 Nagtuo ang mga taga-Nineve sa Dios. Tanan sila, halin sa pinakadungganon hasta sa pinakakubos, nagsul-ob sang sako kag nagpuasa sa pagpakita nga nagahinulsol sila. 6 Kay sang pagkabati sang hari sa mensahi ni Jonas, nagtindog siya sa iya trono kag gin-uba niya ang iya kunop kag nagsul-ob sang sako, kag dayon nagpungko siya sa duta sa pagpakita nga nagahinulsol siya. 7 Naghimo siya sang pahibalo sa mga taga-Nineve nga nagasiling, “Suno sa mando sang hari kag sang iya mga opisyal, wala sing bisan isa sa inyo nga magkaon ukon mag-inom, bisan ang inyo mga baka, karnero, ukon kanding. 8 Magsul-ob kamo tanan sang sako, pati ang mga sapat, kag magpangamuyo kamo sa Dios sing tinagipusuon. Magtalikod kamo sa inyo malaot nga pagkabuhi kag sa pagpamintas nga inyo ginahimo. 9 Basi pa lang magbaylo ang hunahuna sang Dios kag kalimtan na niya ang iya puwerte nga kaakig sa aton agod indi kita mapatay.”
10 Nakita sang Dios ang ila ginhimo, kon paano sila nagtalikod sa ila malaot nga pagkabuhi. Gani nagbaylo ang iya hunahuna kag wala na lang niya sila paglaglaga suno sa iya ginsiling nga iya himuon.
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