Jonas 3
1 A palavra de Yahweh veio a Jonah pela segunda vez, dizendo,
Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
2 “Levanta-te, vai a Nínive, aquela grande cidade, e prega a ela a mensagem que eu te dou”.
“Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
3 Então Jonas se levantou, e foi para Níniveh, de acordo com a palavra de Javé. Agora Nínive era uma cidade extremamente grande, com três dias de viagem de travessia.
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 Jonas começou a entrar na cidade por um dia de viagem, e gritou, e disse: “Em quarenta dias, Nínive será derrubada”!
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 O povo de Nínive acreditava em Deus; e proclamavam um jejum e vestiam pano de saco, desde seu maior até seu menor.
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 A notícia chegou ao rei de Nínive, e ele se levantou de seu trono, tirou seu manto real, cobriu-se de pano de saco e sentou-se em cinzas.
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 Ele fez uma proclamação e publicou através de Nínive pelo decreto do rei e seus nobres, dizendo: “Que nem homem nem animal, nem gado nem rebanho, provem nada; que não se alimentem, nem bebam água;
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 mas que se cubram de saco, tanto homem quanto animal, e que chorem poderosamente a Deus”. Sim, deixe-os desviar todos de seu mau caminho e da violência que está em suas mãos.
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 Quem sabe se Deus não se voltará e cederá, e se afastará de sua raiva feroz, para que não pereçamos?”.
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 Deus viu suas obras, que eles se viraram de seu caminho maligno. Deus se arrependeu do desastre que disse que faria com eles, e não o fez.
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.
