1Zvino shoko raJehovha rakasvika rwechipiri kuna Jona, richiti,
1And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2Simuka, uende Ninivhe, riya guta guru, undoriparidzira zvandichakuraira kuti uparidze.
2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3Ipapo Jona akasimuka, akaenda Ninivhe, sezvaakarairwa neshoko raJehovha. Zvino Ninivhe raiva guta guru-guru, rwendo rwamazuva matatu kupfuura nomo.
3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4Jona akatanga kupinda muguta, achifamba rwendo rwezuva rimwe, akadana, achiti, Kwasara mazuva makumi mana, ipapo Ninivhe richaparadzwa.
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.
5Vanhu veNinivhe vakatenda Mwari, vakatara nguva yokutsanya, vakafuka masaga, kubva kuvakuru pakati pavo kusvikira kuvaduku pakati pavo.
5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6Shoko rikasvika kuna mambo weNinivhe, akasimuka pachigaro chake choushe, akabvisa nguvo yake, akafuka saga, nokugara mumadota.
6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7Akaraira, akaparidza muNinivhe rose chirevo chamambo nechavakuru vake achiti, Vanhu kana zvipfuwo, kana mombe kana makwai, ngazvirege kutongoravira chinhu, ngazvirege kufura kana kumwa mvura;
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 any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8asi vanhu nezvipfuwo ngazvifukidzwe masaga, ngavadane kuna Mwari nesimba; ngavatendeuke mumwe nomumwe panzira yake yakaipa napakuita nesimba namaoko ake.
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9Ndianiko angaziva, zvimwe Mwari ungadzoka akazvidemba, akadzoka pakutsamwa kwake kukuru, tikarega kuparadzwa?
9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10Mwari akaona zvavakaita, kuti vakatendeuka panzira yavo yakaipa, Mwari akazvidemba pamusoro pezvakaipa zvaakati ndichavaitira; akasazviita.
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.