1. AND THE word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach and cry out to it the preaching 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 of three days' journey [sixty miles in circumference].
4. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!
5. So the people of Nineveh believed in God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth [in penitent mourning], from the greatest of them even to the least of them.