1. The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2. Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.
3. So Jonah set out for Nineveh, in accord with the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an awesomely great city; it took three days to walk through it.
4. Jonah began his journey through the city, and when he had gone only a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown,”
5. the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.