Jonah 3
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Gospodova beseda je drugič prišla Jonu, rekoč:
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.
»Vstani, pojdi v Ninive, to veliko mesto in mu oznani pridigo, ki sem ti jo zapovedal.«
3 And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
Tako je Jona vstal in odšel v Ninive, glede na Gospodovo besedo. Torej Ninive so bile silno veliko mesto treh dni potovanja.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!
Jona je začel vstopati v mesto [prvi] dan potovanja ter vpil in govoril: »Še štirideset dni in Ninive bodo uničene.«
5 And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Tako je ljudstvo v Ninivah verovalo Bogu in razglasilo post in si nadelo vrečevino, od največjih izmed njih, celo do najmanjših izmed njih.
6 And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Kajti beseda je prišla h kralju Niniv in vstal je s svojega prestola in iz sebe odložil svoje svečano oblačilo in se pokril z vrečevino in sédel na pepel.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;
In storil je to, da se je razglasilo in oznanilo skozi Ninive, po odloku kralja in njegovih plemičev, rekoč: »Naj niti človek niti žival, [niti] trop niti čreda ničesar ne pokusijo, naj se ne pasejo niti ne pijejo vode,
8 and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
temveč naj bosta človek in žival pokrita z vrečevino in mogočno kličeta k Bogu, da naj se oni, vsakdo izmed njih, obrnejo od svoje zle poti in od nasilja, ki je v njihovih rokah.
9 Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Kdo lahko pove, če se bo Bog obrnil, pokesal in odvrnil proč od svoje krute jeze, da se ne pogubimo?«
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did [it] not.
In Bog je videl njihova dela, da so se odvrnili od svoje zle poti in Bog se je pokesal od zla, ki ga je rekel, da jim bo storil in tega ni storil.
