Book of Jonah (Pastor Won Jae Hudson Yu)

Verse : Jonah 3, 1984 NIV
3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the
message I give you.”


3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh.
Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go
through it. 4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into
the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be
overthrown.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was
proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put
on sackcloth.


6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he
rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself
with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 This is the
proclamation he issued in Nineveh:


“By the decree of the king and his nobles:


Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do
not let them eat or drink. 8 But let people and animals be
covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let
them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who
knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his
fierce anger so that we will not perish.”


10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from
their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the
destruction he had threatened.