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Jonah 3

Jonáh is sent again to Ninevéh, 5 The repentance of the King of Ninevéh.
1.And the word of the Lord came unto aJonáh the second time, saying,
2.Arise, go unto Ninevéh that great city, and preach unto it the preaching, which I bid thee,
3.So Jonáh arose and went to Ninevéh according to the word of the Lord: now Ninevéh was a bgreat and excellent city of three day’s journey.
4.And Jonáh began to enter into the city a day’s cjourney, and he cryed, and said, Yet forty days, and Ninevéh shalbe overthrown.
5.So the people of Ninevéh dbelieved God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6.For word came unto the King of Ninevéh , and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7.And he proclaimed and said through Ninevéh , (by the counsel of the King and his nobles) saying, Let neither man, nor ebeast, bullock nor sheep taste any thing, neither feed nor drink water.
8.But let man and beast put on sackcloth, and fcry mightly unto God: yea, let every man turn from his evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands.
9.gWho can tell if God will turn, and repent and turn away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?
10.And God saw their hworks that they turned from their evil ways: and iGod repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not.

Notes

1-a.
This is a great declaration of God’s mercy that he received him again and sent him forth as his Prophet which had before showed so great infirmity
3-b.
Read chapter 1.2.
4-c.
He went forward one day in the city, and preached, and so he continued till the city was converted.
5-d.
For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them from God to denounce his judgments against them.
7-e.
Not that the dumb beasts had sinned or could repent, but that by their example man might be astonished, considering that for his sin the anger of God hanged over all creatures.
8-f.
He willed, that the men should earnestly call unto God for mercy.
9-g.
For partly by the threatening of the Prophet, and partly by the motion of his own conscience he doubted whether God would show them mercy.
10-h.
That is, the fruits of their repentance, which did proceed of faith which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet.
10-i.
Read Jer. 18.8.