1 E veio a palavra do SENHOR segunda vez a Jonas, dizendo:

2 Levanta-te, e vai à grande cidade de Nínive, e prega contra ela a mensagem que eu te digo.

3 E levantou-se Jonas, e foi a Nínive, segundo a palavra do Senhor. Ora, Nínive era uma cidade muito grande, de três dias de caminho.

4 E começou Jonas a entrar pela cidade caminho de um dia, e pregava, dizendo: Ainda quarenta dias, e Nínive será subvertida.

5 E os homens de Nínive creram em Deus; e proclamaram um jejum, e vestiram-se de saco, desde o maior até ao menor.

6 Esta palavra chegou também ao rei de Nínive; e ele levantou-se do seu trono, e tirou de si as suas vestes, e cobriu-se de saco, e sentou-se sobre a cinza.

7 E fez uma proclamação que se divulgou em Nínive, pelo decreto do rei e dos seus grandes, dizendo: Nem homens, nem animais, nem bois, nem ovelhas provem coisa alguma, nem se lhes dê alimentos, nem bebam água;

8 Mas os homens e os animais sejam cobertos de sacos, e clamem fortemente a Deus, e convertam-se, cada um do seu mau caminho, e da violência que há nas suas mãos.

9 Quem sabe se se voltará Deus, e se arrependerá, e se apartará do furor da sua ira, de sorte que não pereçamos?

10 E Deus viu as obras deles, como se converteram do seu mau caminho; e Deus se arrependeu do mal que tinha anunciado lhes faria, e não o fez.

1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,

2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

4 And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

5 And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

6 And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

7 And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:

8 And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.

9 Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

10 And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.