Youna 3
1 Be Hina Gode da bu Younama sia: i.
The word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2 “Di Ninefe moilai bai bagade fi, ilima asili, sia: na dima sia: ne i amo, dia ilima olelema.”
“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I command you to give.”
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 got up and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of three days' journey.
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 to enter the city and after a day's journey he called out and said, “In forty days Nineveh will 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.
The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast. They all put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them down 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.
Soon the news reached the king of Nineveh. He rose up from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with 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.
He sent out a proclamation that said, “In Nineveh, by the authority of the king and his nobles, let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, 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.
But let both man and animal be covered with sackcloth and let them cry out loudly to God. Let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 Be Gode da Ea asigi bu sinidigisia, ninima asigimu amola ninia da hame bogogia: ma: bela: ?”
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn away from his fierce anger so that we do not perish.”
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.
God saw what they did, that they turned from their evil ways. So then God changed his mind about the punishment that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
