Jona 3
1 Gospodova beseda je drugič prišla Jonu, rekoč:
This message from the Lord came to Jonah the second time,
2 »Vstani, pojdi v Ninive, to veliko mesto in mu oznani pridigo, ki sem ti jo zapovedal.«
‘Arise, go to that great city, Nineveh, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’
3 Tako je Jona vstal in odšel v Ninive, glede na Gospodovo besedo. Torej Ninive so bile silno veliko mesto treh dni potovanja.
So Jonah started for Nineveh, as the Lord commanded. Now Nineveh was so large a city that it took three days’ journey to cross it.
4 Jona je začel vstopati v mesto [prvi] dan potovanja ter vpil in govoril: »Še štirideset dni in Ninive bodo uničene.«
Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, and he proclaimed, ‘Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown.’
5 Tako je ljudstvo v Ninivah verovalo Bogu in razglasilo post in si nadelo vrečevino, od največjih izmed njih, celo do najmanjših izmed njih.
And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they ordered a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
6 Kajti beseda je prišla h kralju Niniv in vstal je s svojega prestola in iz sebe odložil svoje svečano oblačilo in se pokril z vrečevino in sédel na pepel.
And when word came to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, dressed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 In storil je to, da se je razglasilo in oznanilo skozi Ninive, po odloku kralja in njegovih plemičev, rekoč: »Naj niti človek niti žival, [niti] trop niti čreda ničesar ne pokusijo, naj se ne pasejo niti ne pijejo vode,
And he made this proclamation and published it in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: People, beast, herd, and flock shall not taste anything; let them not eat nor drink water.
8 temveč naj bosta človek in žival pokrita z vrečevino in mogočno kličeta k Bogu, da naj se oni, vsakdo izmed njih, obrnejo od svoje zle poti in od nasilja, ki je v njihovih rokah.
Let both people and animals put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them each turn from their evil ways and from the deeds of violence which they are doing.
9 Kdo lahko pove, če se bo Bog obrnil, pokesal in odvrnil proč od svoje krute jeze, da se ne pogubimo?«
Who knows? God may relent and avert his fierce anger, so that we may not die.’
10 In Bog je videl njihova dela, da so se odvrnili od svoje zle poti in Bog se je pokesal od zla, ki ga je rekel, da jim bo storil in tega ni storil.
When God saw that they turned from their evil course, he relented the evil which he said he would do to them, and did not do it.
