¹约拿遵命

¹And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

²“起来！到尼尼微大城去，向其中的居民宣告我所吩咐你的话。”

²`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;`

³约拿就动身，照耶和华的话往尼尼微去了，这尼尼微是一座极大的城（“是一座极大的城”或译：“在　神面前是一座大城”），要三天才能走完。

³and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

⁴尼尼微人悔改得救约拿进城，走了一天，就宣告说：“再过四十天，尼尼微就要毁灭了。”

⁴And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days — and Nineveh is overturned.`

⁵尼尼微人信了（“信了”或译：“信服”）　神，就宣告禁食，从大到小，都穿上麻衣。

⁵And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

⁶这事传到尼尼微王那里，他就起来，离开宝座，脱去王袍，披上麻衣，坐在炉灰中。

⁶seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,

⁷他又传谕全尼尼微，说：“王和大臣有令：‘人、畜、牛、羊，都不准尝什么，不准吃，也不准喝。

⁷and he crieth and saith in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, `Man and beast, herd and flock — let them not taste anything, let them not feed, even water let them not drink;

⁸不论人畜，都要披上麻衣；各人要恳切呼求　神，悔改，离开恶行，摒弃手中的强暴。

⁸and cover themselves [with] sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.

⁹或者　神回心转意，不发烈怒，使我们不致灭亡。’”

⁹Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.`

¹⁰　神看见他们所作的，就是悔改离开恶行，　神就转意，不把所说的灾祸降在他们身上了。

¹⁰And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done [it].