Jonah 3
1 Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
E veiu a palavra do Senhor segunda vez a Jonas, dizendo:
2 “Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
Levanta-te, e vae á grande cidade de Ninive, e prega contra ella a prégação que eu te digo.
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.
E levantou-se Jonas, e foi a Ninive, segundo a palavra do Senhor: era pois Ninive uma grande cidade de Deus, de tres dias de caminho.
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}!”
E começava Jonas a entrar pela cidade caminho d'um dia, e prégava, e dizia: Ainda quarenta dias, e Ninive será subvertida.
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].
E os homens de Ninive creram em Deus; e proclamaram um jejum, e vestiram-se de sacco, desde o maior até ao menor.
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].
Porque esta palavra chegou ao rei de Ninive, e levantou-se do seu throno, e tirou de si os seus vestidos, e cobriu-se de sacco, e assentou-se sobre a cinza.
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.
E fez apregoar, e fallou-se em Ninive, pelo mandado do rei e dos seus grandes, dizendo: Nem homens, nem animaes, nem bois, nem ovelhas provem coisa alguma, nem se lhes dê pasto, nem bebam agua.
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].
Mas os homens e os animaes estarão cobertos de saccos, e clamarão fortemente a Deus, e se converterão, cada um do seu mau caminho, e da violencia que ha nas suas mãos.
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.”
Quem sabe se se voltará Deus, e se arrependerá, e se apartará do furor da sua ira, de sorte que não pereçamos?
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.
E Deus viu as obras d'elles, como se converteram do seu mau caminho: e Deus se arrependeu do mal que tinha dito lhes faria, e não o fez.
