Jonah 3
The Repentance of
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And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time,
saying,
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Arise, go unto Nin'eveh, that great city,
and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
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So Jonah arose, and went unto Nin'eveh,
according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh
was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
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And Jonah began to enter into the city a
day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh
shall be overthrown.
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So the people of Nin'eveh believed God,
and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of
them even to the least of them. Mt. 12.41 · Lk. 11.32
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For word came unto the king of
Nin'eveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from
him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in
ashes.
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And he caused it to be proclaimed
and published through Nin'eveh 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:
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but 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.
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Who can tell if God will turn and
repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish
not?
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And 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.
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