Youna 3
1 Be Hina Gode da bu Younama sia: i.
This message from the Lord came to Jonah the second time,
2 “Di Ninefe moilai bai bagade fi, ilima asili, sia: na dima sia: ne i amo, dia ilima olelema.”
“Arise, go to that great city, Nineveh, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
3 Amabeba: le Youna da Hina Gode ea sia: nabawane, Ninefe moilai bai bagade amoga Ea sia: olelemusa: asi. Ninefe da moilai bai bagade galu. Amodili ahoanoba, eso osodayale galagai.
So Jonah started for Nineveh, as the Lord commanded. Now Nineveh was so large a city that it took three days’ journey to cross it.
4 Amola Youna da Gode Ea sia: amo moilai bai bagade ganodini olelemusa: asili, eso afaega asili, amane sisia: i, “Eso 40 agoane esalu, Gode da Ninefe fi gugunufinisimu!”
Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, and he proclaimed, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
5 Ninefe dunu fi ilia Gode ea sia: amo nababeba: le, dafawane dawa: i, amola ilia da ha: i mae moma: ne, sema ligi. Dunu huluane amola ouligisu dunu huluane ilia da eboboi abula gaga: ne, Hina Godema asigi hou amola sinidigisu hou olelema: ne.
And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they ordered a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
6 Amo sia: nababeba: le, Ninefe hina bagade dunu e fisu ganodini esalu amo wa: legadole amola ea abula noga: i amo gisa: le amola eboboi abula salawane, nasubu sogebi ganodini fi.
And when word came to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, dressed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 Amanoba, Ninefe hina bagade ea dunu fifi lai huluane ilima hamoma: ne sisa: lai. E amane sia: i, “Goe da na sia: amola eagene ouligisu dunu huluane amola amo ilia sia: Dilia huluane da ha: i manu mae moma. Dunu fifi lai amola ohe fi, dili huluane ha: i amola hano mae moma.
And he made this proclamation and published it in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: People, beast, herd, and flock shall not taste anything; let them not eat nor drink water.
8 Dunu fi amola ohe fi huluane da abula eboboi salima: mu. Dunu huluane afae afae da hina: wadela: i hou amo fisili, amola asigili Godema sia: ne gadoma: mu.
Let both people and animals put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them each turn from their evil ways and from the deeds of violence which they are doing.
9 Be Gode da Ea asigi bu sinidigisia, ninima asigimu amola ninia da hame bogogia: ma: bela: ?”
Who knows? God may relent and avert his fierce anger, so that we may not die.”
10 Gode Ea ilia hou amo ba: i, amola ilia da Ema bu sinidigi amo ba: i. Amabeba: le, Gode da Ea ilima se imunu dawa: i amo hame i.
When God saw that they turned from their evil course, he relented the evil which he said he would do to them, and did not do it.
