约拿顺服耶和华
耶和华的话第二次临到约拿，说：
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2“起来，到尼尼微大城去，把我告诉你的信息向其中的居民宣告。”Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3约拿就照耶和华的话起来，到尼尼微去。尼尼微是一座极大的城，约有三天的路程。So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4约拿进城，走了一天，宣告说：“再过四十天，尼尼微要倾覆了！”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.
5尼尼微人就信服神，宣告禁食，从最大的到最小的都穿上麻衣。So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6这消息传到尼尼微王那里，他就从宝座起来，脱下朝服，披上麻布，坐在灰中。For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7他叫人通告尼尼微全城，说：“王和大臣有令，人、畜、牛、羊都不可尝任何东西，不可吃，也不可喝水。And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8人与牲畜都要披上麻布，切切求告神。各人要回转离开恶道，离弃自己掌中的残暴。But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9谁知道神也许会回心转意，不发烈怒，使我们不致灭亡。”Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10神察看他们的行为，见他们离开恶道，神就改变心意，原先所说要降与他们的灾难，他不降了。And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.