1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2. ‘Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.’
3. Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.
4. Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, ‘Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.’