Jonah 3
1 Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
| آنگاه خداوند بار دیگر به یونس فرمود: |
2 “Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
| «به شهر بزرگ نینوا برو و پیامی را که به تو می‌دهم، به آنها اعلام کن!» |
3 So [this time] Jonah obeyed Yahweh, and he went to Nineveh. That city was so big that a person [had to walk] for three days to completely [go through] it.
| 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 On the first day [after] Jonah [arrived], he [began walking] through the city. He was proclaiming (OR, At the end of that day he started proclaiming) to the people, “Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed {[God] will destroy 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 The people of Nineveh believed God’s [message]. They [all] decided that everyone should begin (fasting/abstaining from food). So [everyone], including important people and unimportant people, [did that]. They [also] put on coarse cloth, [to show that they were sorry for having sinned].
| اهالی شهر حرفهایش را باور کرده، به همه اعلان کردند که روزه بگیرند؛ و همه، از بزرگ تا کوچک، پلاس پوشیدند. |
6 The King of Nineveh heard [what the people were doing]. [So] he took off his royal robes, and [he also] put on coarse cloth. He left his palace, and sat down where there were [cold] ashes, [to show that he also was sorry for having sinned].
| 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 Then he sent messengers to proclaim to [the people in] Nineveh: “My advisors and I have decreed that no one may eat or drink anything. Do not even allow your animals to eat or drink.
| 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 Instead, every person must put on coarse cloth. [Put coarse cloth on] your animals, [too]. Then everyone must pray fervently to God. And everyone must stop doing evil actions/things, and stop acting violently [toward others].
| همهٔ مردم باید پلاس پوشیده، به درگاه خداوند التماس کنند و از راههای بد خود بازگشت نموده، از اعمال زشت خود دست بکشند. |
9 Perhaps, [if everyone does that], God may change his mind and be merciful [to us], and stop being very angry with us, with the result that we will not die.”
| کسی چه می‌داند، شاید خداوند از خشم خود برگردد و بر ما ترحم کرده، ما را از بین نبرد.» |
10 When they [all did that], God saw what they were doing, and he saw that they had stopped doing evil things. So [he pitied them, and] he did not get rid of them as he had threatened to do.
| وقتی خدا دید آنها از راههای بد خود دست کشیده‌اند بر آنها ترحم کرده، بلایی را که گفته بود بر ایشان نفرستاد. |
