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1 La palabra del Señor llegó a Jonás por segunda vez:
1 Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 «Levántate, ve a Nínive, esa gran ciudad, y proclama el mensaje que te he dado».
2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
3 Jonás se levantó y fue a Nínive, como el Señor había dicho. Nínive era una ciudad tan grande que se necesitaban tres días para recorrerla de un extremo al otro.
3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
4 Jonás comenzó a recorrer la ciudad. Después de caminar un día, proclamó: «Dentro de cuarenta días Nínive será destruida».
4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
5 Los habitantes de Nínive creyeron en Dios. Fijaron un tiempo de ayuno y se vistieron de tela áspera, desde el mayor hasta el menor.
5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
6 La noticia llegó al rey de Nínive. Él se levantó de su trono, se quitó la túnica, se cubrió de tela áspera y se sentó en el polvo.
6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 Mandó anunciar en Nínive: «Por orden del rey y de sus hombres importantes, ninguna persona ni animal, ni ganado ni rebaño, probará nada. No comerán ni beberán agua.
7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
8 Que las personas y los animales se cubran de tela áspera y clamen a Dios con fuerza. Que todos se aparten de su mal camino y de sus actos violentos.
8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 ¿Quién sabe si Dios cambiará su decisión y apartará su ira ardiente, para que no muramos?».
9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
10 Dios vio lo que hicieron y cómo se apartaron de su mal camino. Cambió su decisión acerca de la desgracia que había anunciado y no se la causó.
10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

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  • Nineveh

    Today: Iraq (opposite Mosul)

    Capital of the brutal Assyrian Empire. Jonah's reluctant mission brought it to repentance; Nahum later prophesied its fall, which came in 612 BC.

    Cited in the guide: Jonah 3:3; Nahum 1:1; 2 Kings 19:36

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Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Jonah 1:1
  2. 2 Jeremiah 1:17; Ezekiel 2:7; Jonah 3:3; Jonah 1:2; John 5:14
  3. 3 Matthew 21:28–29; Psalm 80:10; Genesis 22:3
  4. 4 Deuteronomy 18:22; Jeremiah 18:7–10; 2 Kings 20:1; Jonah 3:10; 2 Kings 20:6
  5. 5 Luke 11:32; Daniel 9:3; Matthew 12:41; Joel 2:12–17; 2 Chronicles 20:3
  6. 6 James 4:6–10; Esther 4:1–4; Job 2:8; Daniel 9:3; Luke 10:13
  7. 7 2 Chronicles 20:3; Joel 2:15–16; Joel 1:18; Jonah 3:5; Ezra 8:21
  8. 8 Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 55:6–7; Jonah 1:6; Jonah 1:14; Ezekiel 18:21–24
  9. 9 2 Samuel 12:22; Joel 2:13–14; Psalm 106:45; Jonah 1:6; Luke 15:18–20
  10. 10 Jeremiah 18:8; 1 Kings 21:27–29; Exodus 32:14; Amos 7:6; Luke 15:20

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 3:8 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter XVII)

    … wrought in Jonah's case, as the Scripture says of them, "And they returned each from his evil way, and the unrighteousness which was in their hands, saying, Who knoweth if God will repent, and turn away His anger from us, and we shall not perish?" --so also, from the beginning, did God permit man to be swallowed up by the …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 3:4 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVIII, Chapter 43)

    But some one may say, "How shall I know whether the prophet Jonah said to the Ninevites, Yet three days and Nineveh shall be overthrown,' or forty days?" For who does not see that the prophet could not say both, when he was sent to terrify the city by the threat of imminent ruin?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)