1. The Lord said to Jonah a second time,
2. “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
3. So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city – it required three days to walk through it!)
4. When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
5. The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
6. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.