¹And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

¹A stalo sa slovo Hospodinovo k Jonášovi po druhé, povediac:

²Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.

²Vstaň, idi do Ninive, do toho veľkého mesta, a káž proti nemu kázeň, ktorú ti ja budem hovoriť.

³And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

³Vtedy vstal Jonáš a išiel do mesta Ninive podľa slova Hospodinovho. A Ninive bolo veľké mesto Bohu, na tri dni chôdze.

⁴And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

⁴A Jonáš započal ísť do mesta, ušiel jeden deň cesty, volal a hovoril: Ešte štyridsať dní, a Ninive bude podvrátené.

⁵And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

⁵A mužovia mesta Ninive uverili Bohu, vyhlásili pôst a obliekli smútočné vrecia, všetci od najväčšieho z nich až do najmenšieho z nich.

⁶And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

⁶Keď potom došlo slovo ku kráľovi mesta Ninive, povstal so svojho trónu, složil so seba svoje kráľovské rúcho, prikryl sa smútočným vrecom a sadnul do popola.

⁷And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;

⁷A dal vyhlásiť a povedať v Ninive, z usúdenia kráľovho a jeho veľmožov, povediac: Nech neokúsia ničoho ani človek ani hovädo; vôl ani dobytča nech sa nepasú ani nech nepijú vody.

⁸and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

⁸Ale nech sa prikryjú smútočným vrecom, človek i hovädo, a nech volajú k Bohu z celej svojej sily a nech sa odvrátia každý od svojej zlej cesty a od násilia, ktoré je v ich rukách.

⁹Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

⁹Kto vie, či sa neobráti Bôh a nebude ľutovať a či sa neodvráti od pále svojho hnevu, aby sme nezahynuli?!

¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did [it] not.

¹⁰A Bôh videl ich skutky, že sa odvrátili od svojej zlej cesty, a tak sa Bôh zľutoval nad tým zlým, o ktorom hovoril, že im ho učiní, a neučinil.