(KJV) Jonah 3¹

⥃The Ninevites Repent ^{[ Matthew 12:38–42 † Luke 11:29–32 ]}

[1] And the word² of the Lord came unto Jonah the second³ time, saying, [2] Arise, go unto Nineveh⁴, that great city, and preach⁵ unto it the preaching that I bid thee. [3] So⁶ Jonah arose⁷, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city⁸ of three days’ journey. [4] And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet⁹ forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

[5] So the people of Nineveh believed¹⁰ God, and proclaimed¹¹ a fast, and put on sackcloth, from¹² the greatest of them even to the least of them. [6] For word¹³ came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose¹⁴ from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered¹⁵ [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. [7] And he caused¹⁶ [it] to be proclaimed and published¹⁷ through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles¹⁸, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd¹⁹ nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: [8] But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry²⁰ mightily unto God: yea, let²¹ them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence²² that [is] in their hands. [9] Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?²³

[10] [¶]And God saw²⁴ their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented²⁵ of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.