Jona 3
1 Ary tonga fanindroany tamin’ i Jona ny tenin’ i Jehovah nanao hoe:
And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Mitsangàna, ka mankanesa any Ninive, ilay tanàna lehibe; ary torio aminy ny teny izay lazaiko aminao.
Arise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation which I shall speak unto thee.
3 Dia nitsangana Jona ka nankany Ninive araka ny tenin’ i Jehovah. Ary Ninive dia tanàna lehibe teo anatrehan’ Andriamanitra, dia lalana hateloana.
And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a great city before God, a three days' journey.
4 Ary Jona niantomboka nandeha tao an-tanàna lalana indray andro ka nitory hoe: Rehefa afaka efa-polo andro, dia horavana Ninive.
And Jonah began to go through the city one day's journey, and he called out, and said, Yet forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 Dia nino an’ Andriamanitra ny mponina tao Ninive ka niantso fifadian-kanina sady nitafy lamba fisaonana hatramin’ ny lehibe ka hatramin’ ny kely.
And the men of Nineveh believed in God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6 Ary nony efa ren’ ny mpanjakan’ i Ninive izany, dia nitsangana niala tamin’ ny seza fiandrianany izy, ka nanaisotra ny akanjom-boninahiny, dia nisarona lamba fisaonana sady nipetraka tamin’ ny lavenona.
For when the matter was come unto the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down on ashes.
7 Ary nasaina nantsoina sy nambara eran’ i Ninive araka ny didin’ ny mpanjaka sy ny mpanapaka hoe: Aza avela hisy hanendry hanina akory, na olona, na biby fiompy; dia ny ondry aman’ osy sy ny omby; eny, aza avela hisy hihinana na hisotro rano akory ireo.
And he caused to be proclaimed and he published through Nineveh, By the decree of the king and his chief men, it is said, Neither man nor beast, neither herds nor flocks, shall taste any thing; they shall not feed, nor drink water;
8 Fa aoka samy hisarona lamba fisaonana ny olona sy ny biby fiompy, ary aoka hitaraina mafy amin’ Andriamanitra izy, ary aoka samy hahafoy ny lalany ratsy sy ny fandozana eny an-tanany avy izy rehetra.
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let [men] call unto God with might; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.
9 Fa angamba hiverina ihany Andriamanitra ka hanenina ary hiala amin’ ny fahatezerany mirehitra, mba tsy ho lany ritra isika?
Who knoweth, but God may turn and bethink himself, and turn away from the fierceness of his anger, that we perish not?
10 Ary rehefa hitan’ Andriamanitra ny nataon’ ireo ny amin’ ny nialany tamin’ ny lalan-dratsiny, dia nanenina Izy ny amin’ ny loza izay nolazainy hamelezany azy, ka tsy nataony izany.
And God saw their works, that they had turned from their evil way: and God bethought himself of the evil, which he had spoken that he would do unto them, and he did it not.
