Jonas 3
1 Et la parole du Seigneur vint à Jonas pour la seconde fois, disant
And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2 Lève-toi, et pars pour Ninive, la grande ville, et proclame dans ses murs la prédiction que Je t'ai déjà prescrit de proclamer.
Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.
3 Et Jonas se leva; et il s'en alla à Ninive, comme lui avait dit le Seigneur. Or la ville de Ninive était grande de trois jours de marche.
So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.
4 Et Jonas commença par entrer dans la ville et par faire environ un jour de marche, et il cria, et il dit: Encore trois jours, et Ninive sera détruite!
And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
5 Et les hommes de Ninive crurent en Dieu, et ils proclamèrent un jeûne, et ils se ceignirent de cilices, depuis le grand jusqu'au petit.
And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.
6 Et la parole de Jonas arriva au roi de Ninive, et il se leva de son trône, et il ôta sa robe, et il se ceignit d'un cilice, et il s'assit sur la cendre.
And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.
7 Et il fut proclamé, et il fut dit en Ninive de la part du roi et de la part de ses grands, ce qui suit: Que ni hommes, ni bêtes, ni bœufs, ni brebis ne mangent, ne paissent, ne boivent même de l'eau.
And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:
8 Et les hommes et les bêtes furent couverts de cilices, et les hommes crièrent sans relâche au Seigneur. Et chacun revint de sa voie coupable et de l'iniquité de ses mains, disant:
And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.
9 Qui sait si le Seigneur ne Se repentira pas, et s'Il ne calmera pas les transports de Sa colère, pour que nous ne périssions point?
Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
10 Et Dieu vit leurs œuvres; Il vit qu'ils revenaient de leurs voies coupables; et Dieu Se repentit du mal qu'Il avait voulu leur faire, et Il ne le leur fit pas.
And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.
