Књига пророка Јоне 3
1 И дође реч Господња Јони други пут говорећи:
And the word of Jehovah came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Устани, и иди у Ниневију град велики, и проповедај му оно што ти ја кажем.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 И устав Јона отиде у Ниневију по речи Господњој; а Ниневија беше град врло велик, три дана хода.
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of three days' journey.
4 И Јона поче ићи по граду један дан хода, и проповеда и рече: Јоште четрдесет дана, па ће Ниневија пропасти.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 И Ниневљани повероваше Богу, и огласише пост, и обукоше се у кострет од највећег до најмањег.
And the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 Јер кад дође та реч до цара ниневијског, он уста са свог престола, и скиде са себе своје одело, и обуче се у кострет и седе у пепео.
And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 И прогласи се и каза се по Ниневији по заповести царевој и кнезова његових говорећи: Људи и стока, говеда и овце да не окусе ништа, ни да пасу ни да пију воде.
And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed, nor drink water,
8 Него и људи и стока да се покрију кострећу, и да призивају Бога јако, и да се врати сваки са свог злог пута и од неправде која му је у руку.
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God. Yea, let them turn each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 Ко зна, еда се поврати и раскаје Бог и поврати се од љутог гнева свог, те не изгинемо.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?
10 И Бог виде дела њихова, где се вратише са злог пута свог; и раскаја се Бог ода зла које рече да им учини, и не учини.
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
