¹ Da bad Jonas i Fiskens Bug til HE EN sin Gud

² og sagde: Jeg råbte i Nøden til HE EN, og han svarede mig; jeg skreg fra Dødsrigets Skød, og du hørte min øst.

³ Du kasted mig i Dybet midt i Havet, Strømmen omgav mig; alle dine Brændinger og Bølger skyllede over mig.

⁴ Jeg tænkte: "Bort er jeg stødt fra dine Øjne, aldrig mer skal jeg skue dit hellige Tempel."

⁵ Vandene trued min Sjæl, Dybet omgav mig, Tang var viklet om mit Hoved; til Bjergenes ødder

⁶ steg jeg ned, til Jordens Slåer, de evige Grundvolde; da drog du mit Liv op af Graven, HE E min Gud.

⁷ Da min Sjæl vansmægtede i mig, kom jeg HE EN i Hu, og min Bøn steg op til dig i dit hellige Tempel.

⁸ De, der dyrker det tomme Gøgl, lader Gudsfrygt fare;

⁹ men jeg vil bringe dig Ofre med Lovsangs Toner og indfri de Løfter, jeg gav. Hos HE EN er Frelse.

¹⁰ Så talede HE EN til Fisken, og den spyede Jonas ud på det tørre Land.

¹ The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,

² "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

³ So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

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 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

⁶ The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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 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 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

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.