Jonah 3
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying:
И бысть слово Господне ко Ионе вторицею глаголя:
2 'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.'
востани и иди в Ниневию град великий, и проповеждь в нем по проповеди преждней, юже Аз глаголах тебе.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.
И воста Иона и иде в Ниневию, якоже глагола Господь. Ниневиа же бяше град велик Богу, яко шествия пути триех дний.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said: 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'
И начат Иона входити во град, яко шествие пути дне единаго, и проповеда и рече: еще три дни, и Ниневиа превратится.
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
И вероваша мужие Ниневийстии Богови, и заповедаша пост, и облекошася во вретища от велика их даже до мала их.
6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
И дойде слово ко царю Ниневийскому, и воста с престола своего и сверже ризы своя с себе, и облечеся во вретище и седе на пепеле.
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 any thing; let them not feed, nor drink water;
И проповедася и речено бысть в Ниневию от царя и вельмож его глаголющих: человецы и скоти, и волове и овцы да не вкусят ничесоже, ни да пасутся, ниже воды да пиют.
8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
И облекошася во вретища человецы и скоти и возопиша прилежно к Богу, и возвратися кийждо от пути своего лукаваго и от неправды сущия в руках их, глаголюще:
9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?'
кто весть, аще раскается и умолен будет Бог, и обратится от гнева ярости Своея, и не погибнем?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He did it not.
И виде Бог дела их, яко обратишася от путий своих лукавых, и раскаяся Бог о зле, еже глаголаше сотворити им, и не сотвори.
