Yunus 3

¹Ve Rabbin sözü Yunus'a ikinci kez şöyle diyerek vuku buldu:

²"Kalk ve o büyük şehir Ninova'ya git; orada, sana söylemiş olduğum önceki bildiri uyarınca duyuruda bulun."

³Bunun üzerine Yunus kalktı ve Rabbin söylediği gibi Ninova'ya gitti. Ninova ise Tanrı için yaklaşık üç günlük yol mesafesinde çok büyük bir şehirdi.

⁴Yunus şehrin içine yaklaşık bir günlük yol kadar girmeye başladı ve şöyle seslenerek duyurdu: "Yalnızca üç gün kaldı ve Ninova yerle bir edilecek!"

⁵Ninova'nın adamları Tanrı'ya iman ettiler; oruç ilan edip en büyüklerinden en küçüklerine kadar çul kuşandılar.

⁶Bu haber Ninova kralına ulaşınca, kral tahtından kalktı, üzerindeki krallık giysisini bizzat çıkardı, çul kuşanarak küle oturdu.

⁷Ardından kral ve soyluları tarafından Ninova'da şu buyruk yayımlanıp söylendi: "İnsanlar, hayvanlar, sığırlar ve davarlar hiçbir şey tatmasın, otlamasın ve su içmesin."

⁸İnsanlar da hayvanlar da çulla örtünsün ve Tanrı'ya canıgönülden feryat etsinler; her biri kendi kötü yolundan ve ellerindeki zorbalıktan dönsün diyerek:

⁹"Kim bilir, belki Tanrı tövbe eder, kızgın öfkesinden döner de böylece asla yok olmayız."

¹⁰Tanrı onların yaptıklarını, kötü yollarından döndüklerini gördü; böylece Tanrı onlara yapacağını söylediği kötülükten ötürü tövbe etti ve bunu yapmadı.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς ᾿Ιωνᾶν ἐκ δευτέρου λέγων·

²ἀνάστηθι καὶ πορεύθητι εἰς Νινευὴ τὴν πόλιν τὴν μεγάλην καὶ κήρυξον ἐν αὐτῇ κατὰ τὸ κήρυγμα τὸ ἔμπροσθεν, ὃ ἐγὼ ἐλάλησα πρός σε.

³καὶ ἀνέστη ᾿Ιωνᾶς καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰς Νινευή, καθὰ ἐλάλησε Κύριος· ἡ δὲ Νινευὴ ἦν πόλις μεγάλη τῷ Θεῷ ὡσεὶ πορείας ὁδοῦ τριῶν ἡμερῶν.

⁴καὶ ἤρξατο ᾿Ιωνᾶς τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν πόλιν ὡσεὶ πορείαν ἡμέρας μιᾶς καὶ ἐκήρυξε καὶ εἶπεν· ἔτι τρεῖς ἡμέραι καὶ Νινευὴ καταστραφήσεται.

⁵καὶ ἐπίστευσαν οἱ ἄνδρες Νινευὴ τῷ Θεῷ καὶ ἐκήρυξαν νηστείαν καὶ ἐνεδύσαντο σάκκους ἀπὸ μεγάλου αὐτῶν ἕως μικροῦ αὐτῶν.

⁶καὶ ἤγγισεν ὁ λόγος πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα τῆς Νινευή, καὶ ἐξανέστη ἀπὸ τοῦ θρόνου αὐτοῦ καὶ περιείλετο τὴν στολὴν αὐτοῦ ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ περιεβάλετο σάκκον καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἐπὶ σποδοῦ.

⁷καὶ ἐκηρύχθη καὶ ἐρρέθη ἐν τῇ Νινευὴ παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ παρὰ τῶν μεγιστάνων αὐτοῦ λέγων· οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ τὰ κτήνη καὶ οἱ βόες καὶ τὰ πρόβατα μὴ γευσάσθωσαν μηδὲ νεμέσθωσαν μηδὲ ὕδωρ πιέτωσαν.

⁸καὶ περιεβάλλοντο σάκκους οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ τὰ κτήνη, καὶ ἀνεβόησαν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἐκτενῶς· καὶ ἀπέστρεψαν ἕκαστος ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὐτῶν τῆς πονηρᾶς καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ἀδικίας τῆς ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν λέγοντες·

⁹τίς οἶδεν εἰ μετανοήσει ὁ Θεὸς καὶ ἀποστρέψει ἐξ ὀργῆς θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα;

¹⁰καὶ εἶδεν ὁ Θεὸς τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἀπέστρεψαν ἀπὸ τῶν ὁδῶν αὐτῶν τῶν πονηρῶν, καὶ μετενόησεν ὁ Θεὸς ἐπὶ τῇ κακίᾳ, ᾗ ἐλάλησε τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτοῖς, καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησε.

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

²Rise, go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to thee of.

³And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was an exceeding great city, of about three days’ journey.

⁴And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day’s journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

⁵And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

⁶And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

⁷And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste [any thing], nor feed, nor drink water.

⁸So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,

⁹Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and [so] we shall not perish?

¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did [it] not.