Mar 19, 2017
Jonah 3:1-10
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah
arose and went to Nineveh, according to the
word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three
days' journey in breadth. 4 Jonah began
to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet
forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown!” 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called
for a fast and put on sackcloth, from
the greatest of them to the least of them. 6 The word reached the
king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat
in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation
and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his
nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd
nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but
let man and beast be covered with
sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn
from his evil way and from the violence
that is in his hands. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn
from his fierce anger, so that we may
not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from
their evil way, God relented of the
disaster that He had said He would do to them, and He did not do
it.