Jonah 3
1 Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
Y la palabra del Señor vino a Jonás por segunda vez, diciendo:
2 “Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
Levántate! ve a Nínive, esa gran ciudad, y dale la palabra que te he dado.
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.
Entonces Jonás se levantó y fue a Nínive como el Señor lo había dicho. Ahora Nínive era una ciudad muy grande, tres días de viaje de punta a punta.
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}!”
Y Jonás, en primer lugar, hizo un viaje de un día a la ciudad, y gritando dijo: En cuarenta días la destrucción alcanzará a Nínive.
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].
Y el pueblo de Nínive creyeron en Dios; y se fijó un tiempo de ayuno, y se vistieron de cilicio, de mayor a 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].
Y llegó la noticia al rey de Nínive, y él se levantó de su asiento de autoridad, y se quitó la túnica, y se vistió de cilicio, se sentó en el polvo.
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.
Y lo hizo dar a conocer en Nínive: Por orden del rey y sus grandes hombres, ningún hombre o bestia, rebaño o ganado debe probar nada; que no tengan comida ni 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].
Y que el hombre y la bestia se vistan de cilicio, y clamen a Dios fuertemente; y que todos se aparten de su mal camino y de los actos violentos de sus manos.
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.”
¿Quién puede decir que Dios cambie de parecer, cambiando su propósito y alejándose de su ira ardiente, y no perezcamos?
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.
Y Dios vio lo que hicieron, cómo fueron apartados de su mal camino; y el propósito de Dios fue cambiado en cuanto al mal que dijo que les haría, y no lo hizo.
