Yunus 3
1 Untuk kedua kalinya TUHAN berbicara kepada Yunus.
Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
2 Kata-Nya, "Pergilah ke Niniwe, kota besar itu, dan sampaikanlah kepada rakyatnya, pesan yang Kuberikan kepadamu."
“Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
3 Maka Yunus mentaati TUHAN dan pergi ke Niniwe, sebuah kota yang besar sekali; sehingga diperlukan tiga hari untuk melintasinya.
So [this time] Jonah obeyed Yahweh, and he went to Nineveh. That city was so big that a person [had to walk] for three days to completely [go through] it.
4 Yunus memasuki kota itu dan sesudah berjalan sepanjang hari, ia mulai berkhotbah, katanya, "Empat puluh hari lagi, Niniwe akan hancur!"
On the first day [after] Jonah [arrived], he [began walking] through the city. He was proclaiming (OR, At the end of that day he started proclaiming) to the people, “Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed {[God] will destroy Nineveh}!”
5 Penduduk Niniwe percaya kepada pesan Allah itu. Seluruh rakyat memutuskan untuk berpuasa, dan semua orang, baik besar maupun kecil, memakai kain karung untuk menunjukkan bahwa mereka menyesali dosa-dosa mereka.
The people of Nineveh believed God’s [message]. They [all] decided that everyone should begin (fasting/abstaining from food). So [everyone], including important people and unimportant people, [did that]. They [also] put on coarse cloth, [to show that they were sorry for having sinned].
6 Waktu raja Niniwe mendengar kabar itu, ia segera turun dari takhtanya. Dilepaskannya jubah kerajaannya dan dipakainya kain karung, lalu duduklah ia di atas abu.
The King of Nineveh heard [what the people were doing]. [So] he took off his royal robes, and [he also] put on coarse cloth. He left his palace, and sat down where there were [cold] ashes, [to show that he also was sorry for having sinned].
7 Ia juga menyiarkan maklumat ini, "Perintah ini dikeluarkan di Niniwe atas keputusan raja dan para menteri: Semua orang, sapi, domba dan ternak lainnya dilarang makan dan minum.
Then he sent messengers to proclaim to [the people in] Nineveh: “My advisors and I have decreed that no one may eat or drink anything. Do not even allow your animals to eat or drink.
8 Manusia dan binatang harus memakai kain karung. Sebagai tanda penyesalan semua orang harus berdoa dengan sungguh-sungguh kepada Allah. Mereka harus memperbaiki kelakuannya yang jahat dan perbuatannya yang penuh dosa.
Instead, every person must put on coarse cloth. [Put coarse cloth on] your animals, [too]. Then everyone must pray fervently to God. And everyone must stop doing evil actions/things, and stop acting violently [toward others].
9 Barangkali Allah akan mengubah niat-Nya dan tidak marah lagi sehingga kita tidak jadi binasa!"
Perhaps, [if everyone does that], God may change his mind and be merciful [to us], and stop being very angry with us, with the result that we will not die.”
10 Allah melihat perbuatan mereka; Ia melihat bahwa mereka telah meninggalkan kelakuan mereka yang jahat. Maka Ia mengubah keputusan-Nya, dan tidak jadi menghukum mereka.
When they [all did that], God saw what they were doing, and he saw that they had stopped doing evil things. So [he pitied them, and] he did not get rid of them as he had threatened to do.
