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

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

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

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!)

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.

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!”