NOW the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you."

3 So Jonah arose and went to Ninevah, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three - day lourney in extent.

4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and laid aside his rob, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.

7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water; do not let them eat, or drink water.

8 But let man and beast covered with sackcloth, and cry mightly to God, let every one turn from his evil way and from the voilence that is in his hands.

9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

10  Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relent from the diaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it. JONAH 3