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Jona 3 | English Standard Version

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

1 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.

The People of Nineveh Repent

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.

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يونس در نينوا

1 آنگاه خداوند بار ديگر به يونس فرمود: 2 «به شهر بزرگ نينوا برو و همانطور كه به تو گفتم، به آنها هشدار بده كه سرنوشت شومی در انتظار آنهاست!» 3 يونس اطاعت كرده، به نينوا رفت. نينوا شهر بسيار بزرگی بود به طوری كه سه روز طول میكشيد تا كسی سراسر آن را بپيمايد. 4 يونس وارد شهر شد و پس از طی يک روز راه شروع به موعظه كرده، گفت: «بعد از چهل روز نينوا ويران خواهد شد!» 5 اهالی شهر حرفهايش را باور كرده، به همه اعلان كردند كه روزه بگيرند؛ و همه، از بزرگ تا كوچک، پلاس پوشيدند. 6 هنگامی كه پادشاه نينوا شنيد كه يونس چه گفته است از تخت خود پايين آمده، لباس شاهانه را از تن درآورد و پلاس پوشيده، در خاكستر نشست. 7 پادشاه و بزرگان دربار او اين پيغام را به سراسر شهر فرستادند: «نه مردم و نه حيوانات، هيچكدام نبايد چيزی بخورند و حتی آب بنوشند. 8 همهٔ مردم بايد پلاس پوشيده، به درگاه خداوند التماس كنند و از راههای بد خود بازگشت نموده، از اعمال زشت خود دست بكشند. 9 كسی چه میداند، شايد خداوند از خشم خود برگردد و بر ما ترحم كرده، ما را از بين نبرد.» 10 وقتی خدا ديد آنها از راههای بد خود دست كشيدهاند بر آنها ترحم كرده، بلايی را كه گفته بود بر ايشان نفرستاد.