3:1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying: "Rise, and go into Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it the preaching which I speak to you." 3:3And Jonah rose, and went away into Nineveh according to the word of the Lord: and Nineveh was a great city, of a journey of three days. 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a journey of one day: and he cried out, and said: "Yet forty days, and Nineveh will be overturned." 3:5And the men of Nineveh believed in God, and proclaimed a fast, and were clothed in sackcloth, from the greater to the lesser. 3:6And the word reached the king of Nineveh: and he rose from his throne, and cast his garment from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ash.
3:7And he cried out, and spoke in Nineveh from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: "Let men, and beasts of burden, and oxen, and flocks not taste anything: let them not graze, and let them not drink water. 3:8And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry to the Lord with strength: and let each man turn from his evil way, and from the iniquity which is in their hands. 3:9Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn back from the fury of his anger, and we shall not perish?" 3:10And God saw their works, that they had turned from their evil way: and God had mercy concerning the evil which he had spoken that he would do to them, and he did not do it.