World English Bible
"Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!""
— Jonah 3:4, World English Bible
“And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
“And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. ”
“When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced,“At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!””
“And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.”
“And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.”
“And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;