Youna 3
1 Be Hina Gode da bu Younama sia: i.
Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
2 “Di Ninefe moilai bai bagade fi, ilima asili, sia: na dima sia: ne i amo, dia ilima olelema.”
“Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
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 [this time] Jonah obeyed Yahweh, and he went to Nineveh. That city was so big that a person [had to walk] for three days to completely [go through] 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!”
On the first day [after] Jonah [arrived], he [began walking] through the city. He was proclaiming (OR, At the end of that day he started proclaiming) to the people, “Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed {[God] will destroy Nineveh}!”
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.
The people of Nineveh believed God’s [message]. They [all] decided that everyone should begin (fasting/abstaining from food). So [everyone], including important people and unimportant people, [did that]. They [also] put on coarse cloth, [to show that they were sorry for having sinned].
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.
The King of Nineveh heard [what the people were doing]. [So] he took off his royal robes, and [he also] put on coarse cloth. He left his palace, and sat down where there were [cold] ashes, [to show that he also was sorry for having sinned].
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.
Then he sent messengers to proclaim to [the people in] Nineveh: “My advisors and I have decreed that no one may eat or drink anything. Do not even allow your animals to eat or drink.
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.
Instead, every person must put on coarse cloth. [Put coarse cloth on] your animals, [too]. Then everyone must pray fervently to God. And everyone must stop doing evil actions/things, and stop acting violently [toward others].
9 Be Gode da Ea asigi bu sinidigisia, ninima asigimu amola ninia da hame bogogia: ma: bela: ?”
Perhaps, [if everyone does that], God may change his mind and be merciful [to us], and stop being very angry with us, with the result that we will 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 they [all did that], God saw what they were doing, and he saw that they had stopped doing evil things. So [he pitied them, and] he did not get rid of them as he had threatened to do.
