Jonas 3
1 Men HERRENs Ord kom for anden gang til Jonas således:
This message from the Lord came to Jonah the second time,
2 "Stå op og gå til Nineve, den store Stad, og udråb over den, hvad jeg tilsiger dig!"
“Arise, go to that great city, Nineveh, and proclaim to it the message that I tell 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.
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 Da nu Jonas var gået den første dagsrejse ind i Byen, råbte han: "Om fyrretyve Dage skal Nineve styrtes i Grus!"
Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, and he proclaimed, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
5 Da troede Folkene i Nineve på Gud, og de udråbte en Faste og klædte sig i Sæk, både store og små;
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 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,
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 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 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 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.
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 Måske vil Gud da angre og holde sin glødende Vrede tilbage, så vi ikke omkommer."
Who knows? God may relent and avert his fierce anger, so that we may not die.”
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.
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.
