4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.


In Context

1 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid thee.

3 So Jonah arose, and went to 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 to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:4On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonas began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, |In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days — and Nineveh is overturned.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.