¹Zvino shoko raJehovha rakasvika rwechipiri kuna Jona, richiti,

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

²Simuka, uende Ninivhe, riya guta guru, undoriparidzira zvandichakuraira kuti uparidze.

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

³Ipapo Jona akasimuka, akaenda Ninivhe, sezvaakarairwa neshoko raJehovha. Zvino Ninivhe raiva guta guru-guru, rwendo rwamazuva matatu kupfuura nomo.

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.

⁴Jona akatanga kupinda muguta, achifamba rwendo rwezuva rimwe, akadana, achiti, Kwasara mazuva makumi mana, ipapo Ninivhe richaparadzwa.

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.`

⁵Vanhu veNinivhe vakatenda Mwari, vakatara nguva yokutsanya, vakafuka masaga, kubva kuvakuru pakati pavo kusvikira kuvaduku pakati pavo.

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

⁶Shoko rikasvika kuna mambo weNinivhe, akasimuka pachigaro chake choushe, akabvisa nguvo yake, akafuka saga, nokugara mumadota.

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,

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 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;

⁸asi vanhu nezvipfuwo ngazvifukidzwe masaga, ngavadane kuna Mwari nesimba; ngavatendeuke mumwe nomumwe panzira yake yakaipa napakuita nesimba namaoko ake.

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.

⁹Ndianiko angaziva, zvimwe Mwari ungadzoka akazvidemba, akadzoka pakutsamwa kwake kukuru, tikarega kuparadzwa?

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.`

¹⁰Mwari akaona zvavakaita, kuti vakatendeuka panzira yavo yakaipa, Mwari akazvidemba pamusoro pezvakaipa zvaakati ndichavaitira; akasazviita.

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].