¹Men HERRENs Ord kom for anden gang til Jonas således:

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

²"Stå op og gå til Nineve, den store Stad, og udråb over den, hvad jeg tilsiger dig!"

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

³Så stod Jonas op og gik til Nineve efter HERRENs Ord. Men Nineve var selv for Gud en stor By, tre Dagsrejser stor.

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.

⁴Da nu Jonas var gået den første dagsrejse ind i Byen, råbte han: "Om fyrretyve Dage skal Nineve styrtes i Grus!"

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.`

⁵Da troede Folkene i Nineve på Gud, og de udråbte en Faste og klædte sig i Sæk, både store og små;

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

⁶og da Sagen kom Nineves Konge for Øre, stod han op fra sin Trone, tog Kappen af, klædte sig i Sæk og satte sig i Støvet,

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,

⁷og han lod udråbe i Nineve: "Kongen og hans Stormænd gør vitterligt: Hverken Folk eller Fæ, Hornkvæg eller Småkvæg, må nyde noget, græsse eller drikke Vand;

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;

⁸men Folk og Fæ skal klædes i Sæk og opløfte et vældigt Skrig til Gud og omvende sig, hver fra sin onde Vej og den Uret, som hænger ved deres Hænder.

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.

⁹Måske vil Gud da angre og holde sin glødende Vrede tilbage, så vi ikke omkommer."

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.`

¹⁰Da Gud så, hvad de gjorde, hvorledes de omvendte sig fra deres onde Vej, angrede han den Ulykke, han havde truet med at føre over dem, og gjorde ikke Alvor deraf.

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].