約拿書 3
1 耶和華的話二次臨到約拿說：
The word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2 「你起來！往尼尼微大城去，向其中的居民宣告我所吩咐你的話。」
“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I command you to give.”
3 約拿便照耶和華的話起來，往尼尼微去。這尼尼微是極大的城，有三日的路程。
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 約拿進城走了一日，宣告說：「再等四十日，尼尼微必傾覆了！」
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 尼尼微人信服上帝，便宣告禁食，從最大的到至小的都穿麻衣。
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 這信息傳到尼尼微王的耳中，他就下了寶座，脫下朝服，披上麻布，坐在灰中。
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 他又使人遍告尼尼微通城，說：「王和大臣有令，人不可嘗甚麼，牲畜、牛羊不可吃草，也不可喝水。
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 人與牲畜都當披上麻布；人要切切求告上帝。各人回頭離開所行的惡道，丟棄手中的強暴。
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 或者上帝轉意後悔，不發烈怒，使我們不致滅亡，也未可知。」
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn away from his fierce anger so that we do not perish.”
10 於是上帝察看他們的行為，見他們離開惡道，他就後悔，不把所說的災禍降與他們了。
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.
