¹ Breme Nineviji; knjiga od utvare Nauma Elkošanina.

² Bog je revnitelj i Gospod je osvetnik; osvetnik je Gospod i gnevi se; Gospod se sveti protivnicima svojim, i drži gnev prema neprijateljima svojim.

³ Gospod je spor na gnev i velike je moći; ali nikako ne pravda krivca; put je Gospodnji u vihoru i buri, i oblaci su prah od nogu Njegovih.

⁴ Zaprećuje moru i isušuje ga, i sve reke isušuje, vene Vasan i Karmil, i cvet vasanski vene.

⁵ Gore se tresu od Njega, i humovi se rastapaju, a zemlja gori pred Njim i vasiljena i sve što živi u njoj.

⁶ Pred gnevom Njegovim ko će se održati? I ko će se opreti jarosti gneva Njegovog? Jarost se Njegova izliva kao oganj, i stene se raspadaju Pred Njim.

⁷ Dobar je Gospod, grad je u nevolji, i poznaje one koji se uzdaju u Nj.

⁸ Ali će silnom poplavom učiniti kraj mestu njenom, i tama će goniti neprijatelje Njegove.

⁹ Šta smišljate Gospodu? On će učiniti kraj; neće se dva puta podignuti pogibao.

¹⁰ Jer kao trnje spleteni i kao od vina pijani proždreće se kao suva slama.

¹¹ Iz tebe je izašao koji smišlja zlo Gospodu, savetnik nevaljao.

¹² Ovako veli Gospod: Ako i jesu u sili i mnogo ih ima, opet će se iseći i proći. Mučio sam te, neću te više mučiti.

¹³ Nego ću sada slomiti jaram njegov s tebe, i pokidaću tvoje okove.

¹⁴ Ali za tebe zapovedi Gospod da se ne seje više ime tvoje; iz doma bogova tvojih istrebiću likove rezane i livene; načiniću ti od njega grob kad budeš prezren.

¹⁵ Eto, na gorama noge onog koji nosi dobre glase, koji oglašuje mir. Praznuj, Juda, svoje praznike, ispunjaj zavete svoje, jer zlikovac neće više prolaziti po tebi; sasvim se zatro.

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.