Jonás 3
1 Por segunda vez llegó a Jonás la palabra de Yahvé, diciendo:
The word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2 “Levántate y ve a Nínive, la ciudad grande, y predica en ella el mensaje que Yo te diré.”
“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I command you to give.”
3 Jonás se levantó, y marchó a Nínive, según la orden de Yahvé. Era Nínive una ciudad grande delante de Dios, de (una dimensión de) tres días de camino.
So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of three days' journey.
4 Comenzó Jonás a penetrar en la ciudad, y caminando un día entero predicaba, diciendo: “De aquí a cuarenta días Nínive será destruida.”
Jonah began to enter the city and after a day's journey he called out and said, “In forty days Nineveh will be overthrown.”
5 Y los ninivitas creyeron en Dios; promulgaron un ayuno y se vistieron de cilicios, desde los grandes hasta los chicos.
The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast. They all put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them down to the least of them.
6 Llegó la noticia también al rey de Nínive; el cual se levantó de su trono, se despojó de su vestidura, se cubrió de saco y se sentó sobre ceniza.
Soon the news reached the king of Nineveh. He rose up from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 Y por decreto del rey y de sus grandes, se publicó en Nínive esta proclamación: “Ni hombres ni bestias, ni bueyes, ni ovejas gusten cosa alguna; no salgan a pacer ni beban agua.
He sent out a proclamation that said, “In Nineveh, by the authority of the king and his nobles, let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not eat, nor drink water.
8 Cúbranse de saco hombres y bestias, y clamen con ahínco a Dios; y conviértase cada uno de su mal camino y de las injusticias de sus manos.
But let both man and animal be covered with sackcloth and let them cry out loudly to God. Let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 Pues bien puede ser que Dios cambie su designio y se arrepienta, dejando el furor de su ira, de suerte que no perezcamos.”
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn away from his fierce anger so that we do not perish.”
10 Y vio Dios lo que hicieron, cómo se volvieron de su mal camino y arrepintiéndose Dios del mal con que los había conminado, no lo llevó a cabo.
God saw what they did, that they turned from their evil ways. So then God changed his mind about the punishment that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
