Yona 3
1 Yehowa ƒe nya va na Yona zi evelia be,
This message from the Lord came to Jonah the second time,
2 “Yi ɖe Ninive, du gã ma me, eye nàɖe gbeƒã nya siwo megblɔ na wò la na wo.”
‘Arise, go to that great city, Nineveh, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’
3 Ale Yona ɖo to Yehowa ƒe gbe azɔ, eye wòyi Ninive. Ninive nye du gã aɖe si woatsɔ ŋkeke etɔ̃ hafi azɔ ato eme.
So Jonah started for Nineveh, as the Lord commanded. Now Nineveh was so large a city that it took three days’ journey to cross it.
4 Yona ge ɖe du la me hezɔ ŋkeke ɖeka nɔ gbeƒã ɖem be, “Esusɔ ŋkeke blaene ne woagbã Ninive du la!”
Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, and he proclaimed, ‘Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown.’
5 Ame siwo le Ninive dua me la xɔ Mawu dzi se; woɖe gbeƒã nutsitsidɔ, eye ame sia ame, tsitsiawo kple ɖeviwo siaa ta akpanya.
And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they ordered a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
6 Esi Ninive fia se Yona ƒe mawunya la, eɖi le eƒe fiazikpui dzi, ɖe eƒe fiawuwo da ɖi, eye wòta akpanya henɔ anyi ɖe dzofi me.
And when word came to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, dressed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 Fia la na woɖe gbeƒã le Ninive dua me be: “Fia kple eƒe dumegãwo de se be: “Amegbetɔ alo lã, nyi alo alẽ aɖeke maɖu nu o. Womana nuɖuɖu alo tsi wo o.
And he made this proclamation and published it in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: People, beast, herd, and flock shall not taste anything; let them not eat nor drink water.
8 Amegbetɔwo kple lãwo siaa ata akpanya, woafa avi vevie na Mawu, woatrɔ le woƒe mɔ vɔ̃wo dzi, eye woaɖe asi le vɔ̃ɖivɔ̃ɖi ŋuti.
Let both people and animals put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them each turn from their evil ways and from the deeds of violence which they are doing.
9 Ɖewohĩ, Mawu ate ŋu aɖo be míatsi agbe, eye wòaɖo asi eƒe dziku helĩhelĩ la dzi be wòagatsrɔ̃ mí o.”
Who knows? God may relent and avert his fierce anger, so that we may not die.’
10 Ke esi Mawu kpɔ be woɖe asi le woƒe mɔ vɔ̃wo ŋuti la, eɖe asi le ɖoɖo si wòwɔ be yeatsrɔ̃ wo la ŋu, eye wòtsɔe ke wo.
When God saw that they turned from their evil course, he relented the evil which he said he would do to them, and did not do it.
