So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city – it required three days to walk through it!)

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: “Stop! Stop!” – but no one turns back.

The Lord will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.

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

But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”

Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”

The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them – and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.