Chapters in Jonah

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1 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying  2 Arise , go to Nineveh , that great city , and preach to it the preaching that I bid  3 So Jonah arose , and went to Nineveh , according to the word of the LORD . Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days ' journey  4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey , and he cried , and said , Yet forty days , and Nineveh will be overthrown  5 So the people of Nineveh believed God , and proclaimed a fast , and put on sackcloth , from the greats of them even to the least  6 For word came to 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 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 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth , and cry mightily to God : yes, let them turn every one from his evil way , and from the violence 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  10 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 to them; and he did