Jonah 3
1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
上主的話再次傳給約納說：
2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
「你起身往尼尼微大城去，向他們宣告我曉諭你的事。」
3 This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
約納便依從上主的話，起身去了尼尼微。尼尼微在天主前是一座大城，須要三天的行程。
4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
約納開始進城，行了一天的路程，宣佈說：「還有四十天，尼尼微就要毀滅了。」
5 And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
尼尼微人便信仰了天主，立刻宣佈禁食，從大到小，都身披苦衣。
6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
當這傳到尼尼微王那裏，他便起來，離開自己的寶座，脫去長服，披上苦衣，坐在灰土中；
7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
然後命令以君王的諭令和其大臣的名義，在尼尼微宣佈說：「人、牲畜、牛羊，都可不可吃什麼；不可牧放，也不可喝水。
8 Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
人和牲畜都應身披苦衣，人要懇切呼求天主，更要轉離自己的邪路，放棄手中的暴行。
9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
誰知道天主也許會轉意憐憫，收回自己的烈怒，使我們不致滅亡。」
10 When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
天主看到他們所行的事，看到他們離開自己的邪路，遂憐憫他們，不將已宣佈的災禍，降在他們身上。
