Yunah (Jonah) — 3

Yunah Preaches at Ninabah 

1 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH spoke to Yunah a second time: 

2 “Get up and go to the great city of Ninabah, and deliver the message I have given you.”

3 This time Yunah obeyed  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s command and went to Ninabah, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. 

4 On the day Yunah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Ninabah will be destroyed!” 

5 The people of Ninabah believed  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.

6 When the king of Ninabah heard what Yunah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes, he dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes.

7 Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: “No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all. 

8 People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. 

9 Who can tell? Perhaps even yet  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will change His mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”

10 When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH changed His mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.