Jonás 3
1 La Palabra de Yavé vino por segunda vez a Jonás:
And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:
2 Levántate y vé a Nínive, la gran ciudad, y proclama en ella el mensaje que Yo te daré.
Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 Entonces Jonás se levantó y fue a Nínive, conforme a la Palabra de Yavé. Nínive era una ciudad muy grande de tres días de camino.
And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey.
4 Jonás entró en la ciudad. Caminó un día y proclamaba: Quedan 40 días y Nínive será destruida.
And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.
5 Los hombres de Nínive creyeron a ʼElohim, proclamaron ayuno y se cubrieron de tela áspera, desde el mayor hasta el menor.
And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
6 Cuando la noticia llegó al rey de Nínive, éste se levantó de su trono, se despojó de su manto, se cubrió de tela áspera y se sentó sobre ceniza.
And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 Proclamó y anunció en Nínive, por mandato del rey y de sus grandes: ¡Que hombres y animales, bueyes y ovejas, no coman alguna cosa! ¡Que no se les dé alimento, ni beban agua!
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water.
8 ¡Cúbranse de tela áspera tanto hombres como animales! ¡Clamen a ʼElohim fuertemente, y cambien de mente cada uno con respecto a su mal camino y al robo que hay en sus manos!
And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
9 ¿Quién sabe si ʼElohim desistirá y cambiará de parecer, se apartará del furor de su ira y no perezcamos?
Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?
10 ʼElohim vio lo que hicieron, cómo regresaron de su mal camino, y desistió del mal que dijo que les haría, y no lo hizo.
And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.
