Jonah 3
1 This message from the Lord came to Jonah the second time,
and to be word LORD to(wards) Jonah second to/for to say
2 ‘Arise, go to that great city, Nineveh, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’
to arise: rise to go: went to(wards) Nineveh [the] city [the] great: large and to call: call out to(wards) her [obj] [the] proclamation which I to speak: speak to(wards) you
3 So Jonah started for Nineveh, as the Lord commanded. Now Nineveh was so large a city that it took three days’ journey to cross it.
and to arise: rise Jonah and to go: went to(wards) Nineveh like/as word LORD and Nineveh to be city great: large to/for God journey three day
4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, and he proclaimed, ‘Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown.’
and to profane/begin: begin Jonah to/for to come (in): come in/on/with city journey day one and to call: call out and to say still forty day and Nineveh to overturn
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they ordered a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
and be faithful human Nineveh in/on/with God and to call: call to fast and to clothe sackcloth from great: large their and till small their
6 And when word came to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, dressed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
and to touch [the] word to(wards) king Nineveh and to arise: rise from throne his and to pass: bring clothing his from upon him and to cover sackcloth and to dwell upon [the] ashes
7 And he made this proclamation and published it in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: People, beast, herd, and flock shall not taste anything; let them not eat nor drink water.
and to cry out and to say in/on/with Nineveh from taste [the] king and great: large his to/for to say [the] man and [the] animal [the] cattle and [the] flock not to perceive anything not to pasture and water not to drink
8 Let both people and animals put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them each turn from their evil ways and from the deeds of violence which they are doing.
and to cover sackcloth [the] man and [the] animal and to call: call to to(wards) God in/on/with force and to return: repent man: anyone from way: conduct his [the] distress: evil and from [the] violence which in/on/with palm their
9 Who knows? God may relent and avert his fierce anger, so that we may not die.’
who? to know to return: repent and to be sorry: relent [the] God and to return: repent from burning anger face: anger his and not to perish
10 When God saw that they turned from their evil course, he relented the evil which he said he would do to them, and did not do it.
and to see: see [the] God [obj] deed their for to return: repent from way: conduct their [the] distress: evil and to be sorry: relent [the] God upon [the] distress: harm which to speak: speak to/for to make: do to/for them and not to make: do
