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Jonah

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1 And the word of the LORD 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 the LORD. 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 So the peo­ple of Nin­eveh be­lieved God, and pro­claimed a fast, and put on sack­cloth, from the great­est of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nin­eveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and cov­ered him with sack­cloth, and sat in ash­es. 7 And he caused it to be pro­claimed and pub­lished through Nin­eveh 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: 8 But let man and beast be cov­ered with sack­cloth, and cry might­i­ly unto God: yea, let them turn ev­ery one from his evil way, and from the vi­o­lence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will 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, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.