[BR]但我必用感谢的声音献祭与你。我所许的愿,我必偿还。救恩出于耶和华。But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
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约拿便照耶和华的话起来,往尼尼微去。这尼尼微是极大的城,有三日的路程。So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
约拿进城走了一日,宣告说,再等四十日,尼尼微必倾覆了。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.
尼尼微人信服神,便宣告禁食,从最大的到至小的,都穿麻衣(或作披上麻布)。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.
这信息传到尼尼微王的耳中,他就下了宝座,脱下朝服,披上麻布,坐在灰中。For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
他又使人遍告尼尼微通城,说,王和大臣有令,人不可尝什么,牲畜,牛羊不可吃草,也不可喝水。And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: