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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.`

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

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

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.

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,

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.

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;

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.

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.

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

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.`

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.

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].