The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, set out for the great city of Nineveh and announced the message that I will tell you.

So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh.

According to the Lord's bidding.

Now Nineveh was an enormously large city.

It took three days to go through it.

Jonah began his journey through the city and had gone but a single day's walk announcing

40 days more and Nineve shall be destroyed.

When the people of Nineve believed God, they proclaimed

a fast, and all of them great and small put on sackcloth. When the news reached the king of

the Nineveh, he rose from his thorn, laid aside his rope, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. Then he had this

proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and the nobles, neither man nor beast, neither cattle, nor sheep, shall taste any.

They shall not eat, nor they drink water. Man and they shall be any. They shall not eat, nor they drink water.

Man and they shall be covered with sackcloth and called loudly to God.

Every man shall turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in hand.

Who knows, God may relent and forgive and withhold his pleasing wrath so that we shall not perish.

When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way,

he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them.

He did not carry it out. The word of the Lord.

Thank you, God.

Please turn to page 263. Our response will be a heart contrite and humble, oh God you will not spurn.

A heart can be humble, God you will not suffer. Have mercy on me, O God, and your goodness, and the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

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