Jonah 3
1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
| آنگاه خداوند بار دیگر به یونس فرمود: |
2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.
| «به شهر بزرگ نینوا برو و پیامی را که به تو می‌دهم، به آنها اعلام کن!» |
3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.
| یونس اطاعت کرده، به نینوا رفت. نینوا شهر بسیار بزرگی بود به طوری که سه روز طول می‌کشید تا کسی سراسر آن را بپیماید. |
4 And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
| یونس وارد شهر شد و پس از طی یک روز راه شروع به موعظه کرده، گفت: «بعد از چهل روز نینوا ویران خواهد شد!» |
5 And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.
| اهالی شهر حرفهایش را باور کرده، به همه اعلان کردند که روزه بگیرند؛ و همه، از بزرگ تا کوچک، پلاس پوشیدند. |
6 And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.
| هنگامی که پادشاه نینوا شنید که یونس چه گفته است از تخت خود پایین آمده، لباس شاهانه را از تن درآورد و پلاس پوشیده، در خاکستر نشست. |
7 And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:
| پادشاه و بزرگان دربار او این پیام را به سراسر شهر فرستادند: «نه مردم و نه حیوانات، هیچ‌کدام نباید چیزی بخورند و حتی آب بنوشند. |
8 And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.
| همهٔ مردم باید پلاس پوشیده، به درگاه خداوند التماس کنند و از راههای بد خود بازگشت نموده، از اعمال زشت خود دست بکشند. |
9 Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
| کسی چه می‌داند، شاید خداوند از خشم خود برگردد و بر ما ترحم کرده، ما را از بین نبرد.» |
10 And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.
| وقتی خدا دید آنها از راههای بد خود دست کشیده‌اند بر آنها ترحم کرده، بلایی را که گفته بود بر ایشان نفرستاد. |
