Jonah 3
1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,
Riječ Jahvina dođe Joni drugi put:
2 'Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'
“Ustani,” reče mu, “idi u Ninivu, grad veliki, propovijedaj u njemu što ću ti reći.”
3 and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.
Jona ustade i ode u Ninivu, kako mu Jahve zapovjedi. Niniva bijaše grad velik do Boga - tri dana hoda.
4 And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days — and Nineveh is overturned.'
Jona prođe gradom dan hoda, propovijedajući: “Još četrdeset dana i Niniva će biti razorena.”
5 And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,
Ninivljani povjerovaše Bogu; oglasiše post i obukoše se u kostrijet, svi od najvećega do najmanjega.
6 seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,
Glas doprije do kralja ninivskoga: on ustade s prijestolja, skide plašt sa sebe, odjenu se u kostrijet i sjede u pepeo.
7 and he crieth and saith in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, 'Man and beast, herd and flock — let them not taste anything, let them not feed, even water let them not drink;
Tada se po odredbi kralja i njegovih velikaša oglasi i objavi u Ninivi: “Ljudi i stoka, goveda i ovce da ne okuse ništa, ni da pasu, ni da vodu piju.
8 and cover themselves [with] sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.
Nego i ljudi i stoka da se pokriju kostrijeću, da glasno Boga zazivlju i da se obrati svatko sa svojega zlog puta i nepravde koju je činio.
9 Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'
Tko zna, možda će se povratiti Bog, smilovati se i odustati od ljutoga svog gnjeva da ne izginemo?”
10 And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done [it].
Bog vidje što su činili: da se obratiše od svojega zlog puta. I sažali se Bog zbog nesreće kojom im bijaše zaprijetio i ne učini.
