And the word of the Lord came to Yona the second time, saying,

Arise, go to Nineve, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I bid thee.

So Yona arose, and went to Nineve, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineve was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey in extent.

And Yona began to enter the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Another forty days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

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

For word came to the king of Nineve, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineve by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: and let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Who can tell? God may turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we perish not.

And God saw their deeds, in that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which he had said that he would do to them; and he did not do it.