Jonas 3

Te Whakahuringa o Ninewe

1 Nā, ka puta tuarua mai te kupu a Ihowā ki a Hona, i mea ia, 2 "Whakatika, haere ki Ninewe, ki taua pā nui, kauwhautia hoki ki reira te kauwhau e kōrerotia e ahau ki a koe."

3 Nā, whakatika ana a Hona haere ana ki Ninewe, pērā ana me tā Ihowā i kōrero ai. Nā, he pā nui rawa Ninewe, e toru ngā rā e haerea ai. 4 Nā, ka tīmata tā Hona haere ki roto ki te pā, kotahi te rā i haere ai, kei te karanga, kei te mea: "Kia whā tekau ake ngā rā, ka hurihia a Ninewe." 5 Ā, whakapono tonu ngā tāngata o Ninewe ki tā te Atua; karangatia ana e rātou he nohopuku, he taratara ō rātou kākahu, o ngā mea rarahi o rātou tae rawa iho ki ngā mea ririki.

6 Nā, ka tae he kōrero ki te kīngi o Ninewe, ā, whakatika ana ia i runga i tōna torōna, whakarērea atu ana e ia tōna koroka, kei te hīpoki i a ia ki te kākahu taratara, noho ana i roto i te pungarehu. 7 I meinga anō e ia kia karangatia te kōrero i roto i Ninewe:

"He mea whakatakoto nā te kīngi rātou ko āna metararahi, i mea ia:

"Kaua te tangata, te kararehe rānei, te kau rānei, te hipi rānei e pā ki tētahi aha. Kaua rātou e kai, e inu wai rānei. 8 Engari, kia hīpokina te tangata me te kararehe ki te kākahu taratara, kia kaha anō tā rātou karanga ki te Atua. Āe rā, kia hoki anō ngā tāngata i tōna ara kino, i tōna ara kino, i te tutū anō o ō rātou ringa. 9 Ko wai ka tohu tērā pea te Atua ka tahuri, ā, ka puta kē tōna whakaaro, ka tahuri atu hoki i te muranga o tōna riri, ā, e kore tātou e ngaro?"

10 Ā, ka kite te Atua i ā rātou mahi, kua tahuri atu rātou i tō rātou ara kino; nā, ka puta kē te whakaaro o te Atua mō te kino i kīia e ia kia meatia ki a rātou; ā, kīhai i meatia e ia.

1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.