1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying: 2 Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey. 4 And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed. 5 And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. 6 And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water. 8 And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish? 10 And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.
Jonás · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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Referencias cruzadas (10)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jonás 1:1
- 2 Jeremías 1:17; Ezequiel 2:7; Jonás 3:3; Jonás 1:2; Juan 5:14
- 3 Mateo 21:28–29; Salmo 80:10; Génesis 22:3
- 4 Deuteronomio 18:22; Jeremías 18:7–10; 2 Reyes 20:1; Jonás 3:10; 2 Reyes 20:6
- 5 Lucas 11:32; Daniel 9:3; Mateo 12:41; Joel 2:12–17; 2 Crónicas 20:3
- 6 Santiago 4:6–10; Ester 4:1–4; Job 2:8; Daniel 9:3; Lucas 10:13
- 7 2 Crónicas 20:3; Joel 2:15–16; Joel 1:18; Jonás 3:5; Esdras 8:21
- 8 Isaías 59:6; Isaías 55:6–7; Jonás 1:6; Jonás 1:14; Ezequiel 18:21–24
- 9 2 Samuel 12:22; Joel 2:13–14; Salmo 106:45; Jonás 1:6; Lucas 15:18–20
- 10 Jeremías 18:8; 1 Reyes 21:27–29; Éxodo 32:14; Amós 7:6; Lucas 15:20
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
… 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 …
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?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)