Jonás 3

1Por segunda vez llegó a Jonás la palabra de Yahvé, diciendo:

2“Levántate y ve a Nínive, la ciudad grande, y predica en ella el mensaje que Yo te diré.”

3Jonás se levantó, y marchó a Nínive, según la orden de Yahvé. Era Nínive una ciudad grande delante de Dios, de (una dimensión de) tres días de camino.

4Comenzó Jonás a penetrar en la ciudad, y caminando un día entero predicaba, diciendo: “De aquí a cuarenta días Nínive será destruida.”

5Y los ninivitas creyeron en Dios; promulgaron un ayuno y se vistieron de cilicios, desde los grandes hasta los chicos.

6Llegó la noticia también al rey de Nínive; el cual se levantó de su trono, se despojó de su vestidura, se cubrió de saco y se sentó sobre ceniza.

7Y por decreto del rey y de sus grandes, se publicó en Nínive esta proclamación: “Ni hombres ni bestias, ni bueyes, ni ovejas gusten cosa alguna; no salgan a pacer ni beban agua.

8Cúbranse de saco hombres y bestias, y clamen con ahínco a Dios; y conviértase cada uno de su mal camino y de las injusticias de sus manos.

9Pues bien puede ser que Dios cambie su designio y se arrepienta, dejando el furor de su ira, de suerte que no perezcamos.”

10Y vio Dios lo que hicieron, cómo se volvieron de su mal camino y arrepintiéndose Dios del mal con que los había conminado, no lo llevó a cabo.

1Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam secundo, dicens:

2Surge, et vade in Niniven, civitatem magnam, et prædica in ea prædicationem quam ego loquor ad te.

3Et surrexit Jonas, et abiit in Niniven juxta verbum Domini: et Ninive erat civitas magna, itinere trium dierum.

4Et cœpit Jonas introire in civitatem itinere diei unius: et clamavit, et dixit: Adhuc quadraginta dies, et Ninive subvertetur.

5Et crediderunt viri Ninivitæ in Deum, et prædicaverunt jejunium, et vestiti sunt saccis, a majore usque ad minorem.

6Et pervenit verbum ad regem Ninive: et surrexit de solio suo, et abjecit vestimentum suum a se, et indutus est sacco, et sedit in cinere.

7Et clamavit, et dixit in Ninive ex ore regis et principum ejus, dicens: Homines, et jumenta, et boves, et pecora non gustent quidquam: nec pascantur, et aquam non bibant.

8Et operiantur saccis homines et jumenta, et clament ad Dominum in fortitudine: et convertatur vir a via sua mala, et ab iniquitate quæ est in manibus eorum.

9Quis scit si convertatur et ignoscat Deus, et revertatur a furore iræ suæ, et non peribimus?

10Et vidit Deus opera eorum, quia conversi sunt de via sua mala: et misertus est Deus super malitiam quam locutus fuerat ut faceret eis, et non fecit.

1And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:

2Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

3And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey.

4And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.

5And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

6And 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.

7And 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.

8And 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.

9Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?

10And 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.