1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto 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 shall be overthrown.
5 ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto 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 unto God: yea, 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 not?
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 unto them; and he did it not.
Jona ma i kOninive
1 Norukwao Muhona wa hungira ku Jona a tja: 2 “Twende kOninive, ihi otjihuro otjinene, u kazuvarisire ovature vatjo indji ombuze ndji mbe ku raera.” 3 Nu Jona wa kara nonḓuviro ku Muhona na i kOninive, Ninive tja ri otjihuro otjinene nai nga tjaa tji kawondjwa oure womayuva yetatu okutuurunga tjo. 4 Jona wa uta okutuurunga otjihuro, neye tja za nokuryanga oure weyuva rimwe, arire tja zuvarisa a tja: “Inga pa sewa omayuva omirongo vine, nu Ninive otji matji yandekwa!”
5 Novature va Ninive va kambura mu Ndjambi nowo va tya kutja auhe e ritjaere kovikurya, novandu avehe, ovanene nouṱiṱi, va zara ozombanda zomakutu okuraisa kutja ve ritanaura.
6 Nombara ya Ninive tji ya zuva ombuze ndji, ya sekama kotjihavero tjayo tjouhona, ai hukura ongwava yayo, ai zara ombanda yekutu nai kahaama momutwe. 7 Noyo ya tjivisa nai kovature va Ninive: “Inga owo omarakiza nga zu kombara na kovahongore vayo: ‘Kape na omundu ngu ma ri otjikurya; ovandu avehe mave tjaerwa okurya nokunwa, nozongombe nozonyanda wina. 8 Ovandu avehe mave zara ozombanda zomakutu, novinamuinyo avihe wina. Auhe nga kumbe nomasa ku Ndjambi nu a ise ozongaro ze ozombi novitjitwa vye ovivi. 9 Ngahino Ndjambi ma rundurura omeripura we na zu ko komazenge we ne he tu yandeke!’ ”
10 Nu Ndjambi wa muna imbi mbi va tjita. Eye wa muna kutja va isa ozongaro zawo ozombi, neye opa rundururira omeripura we ne he ve vere otja pa tjere meve vere.
