Книга пророка Ионы 3
1 И бысть слово Господне ко Ионе вторицею глаголя:
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 востани и иди в Ниневию град великий, и проповеждь в нем по проповеди преждней, юже Аз глаголах тебе.
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 И воста Иона и иде в Ниневию, якоже глагола Господь. Ниневиа же бяше град велик Богу, яко шествия пути триех дний.
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.
4 И начат Иона входити во град, яко шествие пути дне единаго, и проповеда и рече: еще три дни, и Ниневиа превратится.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 И вероваша мужие Ниневийстии Богови, и заповедаша пост, и облекошася во вретища от велика их даже до мала их.
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 И дойде слово ко царю Ниневийскому, и воста с престола своего и сверже ризы своя с себе, и облечеся во вретище и седе на пепеле.
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 И проповедася и речено бысть в Ниневию от царя и вельмож его глаголющих: человецы и скоти, и волове и овцы да не вкусят ничесоже, ни да пасутся, ниже воды да пиют.
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 any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 И облекошася во вретища человецы и скоти и возопиша прилежно к Богу, и возвратися кийждо от пути своего лукаваго и от неправды сущия в руках их, глаголюще:
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 кто весть, аще раскается и умолен будет Бог, и обратится от гнева ярости Своея, и не погибнем?
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 И виде Бог дела их, яко обратишася от путий своих лукавых, и раскаяся Бог о зле, еже глаголаше сотворити им, и не сотвори.
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
