Jonah 3
1 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
耶和华的话二次临到约拿说：
2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I command you to give.”
“你起来！往尼尼微大城去，向其中的居民宣告我所吩咐你的话。”
3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of three days' journey.
约拿便照耶和华的话起来，往尼尼微去。这尼尼微是极大的城，有三日的路程。
4 Jonah began to enter the city and after a day's journey he called out and said, “In forty days Nineveh will be overthrown.”
约拿进城走了一日，宣告说：“再等四十日，尼尼微必倾覆了！”
5 The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast. They all put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them down to the least of them.
尼尼微人信服 神，便宣告禁食，从最大的到至小的都穿麻衣。
6 Soon the news reached the king of Nineveh. He rose up from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
这信息传到尼尼微王的耳中，他就下了宝座，脱下朝服，披上麻布，坐在灰中。
7 He sent out a proclamation that said, “In Nineveh, by the authority of the king and his nobles, let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not eat, nor drink water.
他又使人遍告尼尼微通城，说：“王和大臣有令，人不可尝什么，牲畜、牛羊不可吃草，也不可喝水。
8 But let both man and animal be covered with sackcloth and let them cry out loudly to God. Let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
人与牲畜都当披上麻布；人要切切求告 神。各人回头离开所行的恶道，丢弃手中的强暴。
9 Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn away from his fierce anger so that we do not perish.”
或者 神转意后悔，不发烈怒，使我们不致灭亡，也未可知。”
10 God saw what they did, that they turned from their evil ways. So then God changed his mind about the punishment that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
于是 神察看他们的行为，见他们离开恶道，他就后悔，不把所说的灾祸降与他们了。
