1And the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying,2Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation that I am speaking to you.3So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was a great city to God, a journey of three days.4Then Jonah began to enter the city, a one-day journey, and he called out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overturned."5And the men of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.7He issued a proclamation in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not graze, and let them not drink water."8Let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry out to God with strength; let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence in his hands.9Who knows whether God may turn and relent, and turn from his burning anger so that we do not perish?10When God saw their deeds, that they had turned from their evil way, God relented concerning the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.