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


In Context

1 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,

2 |Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.|

3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

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

5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, 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 Webster 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 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.