Jonas 3
1 Men HERRENs Ord kom for anden gang til Jonas således:
And there is a word of YHWH to Jonah a second time, saying,
2 "Stå op og gå til Nineve, den store Stad, og udråb over den, hvad jeg tilsiger dig!"
“Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation that I am speaking to you”;
3 Så stod Jonas op og gik til Nineve efter HERRENs Ord. Men Nineve var selv for Gud en stor By, tre Dagsrejser stor.
and Jonah rises, and he goes to Nineveh, according to the word of YHWH. And Nineveh has been a great city before God, a journey of three days.
4 Da nu Jonas var gået den første dagsrejse ind i Byen, råbte han: "Om fyrretyve Dage skal Nineve styrtes i Grus!"
And Jonah begins to go into the city—a journey of one day—and proclaims and says, “Yet forty days and Nineveh is overturned!”
5 Da troede Folkene i Nineve på Gud, og de udråbte en Faste og klædte sig i Sæk, både store og små;
And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least,
6 og da Sagen kom Nineves Konge for Øre, stod han op fra sin Trone, tog Kappen af, klædte sig i Sæk og satte sig i Støvet,
seeing the word comes to the king of Nineveh, and he rises from his throne, and removes his honorable robe from off him, and spreads out sackcloth, and sits on the ashes,
7 og han lod udråbe i Nineve: "Kongen og hans Stormænd gør vitterligt: Hverken Folk eller Fæ, Hornkvæg eller Småkvæg, må nyde noget, græsse eller drikke Vand;
and he cries and says in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, “Man and beast, herd and flock—do not let them taste anything, do not let them feed, do not even let them drink water;
8 men Folk og Fæ skal klædes i Sæk og opløfte et vældigt Skrig til Gud og omvende sig, hver fra sin onde Vej og den Uret, som hænger ved deres Hænder.
and let man and beast cover themselves [with] sackcloth, and let them call to God mightily, and let them each turn back from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.
9 Måske vil Gud da angre og holde sin glødende Vrede tilbage, så vi ikke omkommer."
Who knows? He turns back, and God has relented, and has turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.”
10 Da Gud så, hvad de gjorde, hvorledes de omvendte sig fra deres onde Vej, angrede han den Ulykke, han havde truet med at føre over dem, og gjorde ikke Alvor deraf.
And God sees their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God relents of the evil that He spoke of doing to them, and He has not done [it].
