Jonah 3
1 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
上主的話再次傳給約納說：
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid thee.
「你起身往尼尼微大城去，向他們宣告我曉諭你的事。」
3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
約納便依從上主的話，起身去了尼尼微。尼尼微在天主前是一座大城，須要三天的行程。
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
約納開始進城，行了一天的路程，宣佈說：「還有四十天，尼尼微就要毀滅了。」
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
尼尼微人便信仰了天主，立刻宣佈禁食，從大到小，都身披苦衣。
6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [himself] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
當這傳到尼尼微王那裏，他便起來，離開自己的寶座，脫去長服，披上苦衣，坐在灰土中；
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:
然後命令以君王的諭令和其大臣的名義，在尼尼微宣佈說：「人、牲畜、牛羊，都可不可吃什麼；不可牧放，也不可喝水。
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.
人和牲畜都應身披苦衣，人要懇切呼求天主，更要轉離自己的邪路，放棄手中的暴行。
9 Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
誰知道天主也許會轉意憐憫，收回自己的烈怒，使我們不致滅亡。」
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do to them; and he did [it] not.
天主看到他們所行的事，看到他們離開自己的邪路，遂憐憫他們，不將已宣佈的災禍，降在他們身上。
