Jonah 3:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Jonah began to go into the city, walking a journey of one day, and he proclaimed, saying, “In forty days Nineveh will be overturned!”

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jonah{H3124} began{H2490} to enter{H935} into the city{H5892} a{H259} day's{H3117} journey,{H4109} and he cried,{H7121} and said,{H559} Yet forty{H705} days,{H3117} and Nineveh{H5210} shall be overthrown.{H2015}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jonah{H3124} began{H2490}{(H8686)} to enter{H935}{(H8800)} into the city{H5892} a{H259} day's{H3117} journey{H4109}, and he cried{H7121}{(H8799)}, and said{H559}{(H8799)}, Yet forty{H705} days{H3117}, and Nineveh{H5210} shall be overthrown{H2015}{(H8737)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    And Ionas went to and entred in to ye citie euen a dayes iourney and cried sayenge: There shall not passe.xl. dayes but Niniue shalbe ouerthrowen.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And Ionas wente to, and entred in to ye cite: euen a dayes iourney, and cried, sayenge: There are yet xl. dayes, and then shal Niniue be ouerthrowen.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And Ionah began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed, and said, Yet fourtie dayes, and Nineueh shalbe ouerthrowen.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Ionas began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed & saide: Yet fourtie dayes, & Niniue shalbe destroyed.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 18:22 : 22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them. 9 And at any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 If it does evil in my sight, so that it does not obey my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
  • Jonah 3:10 : 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented of the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
  • 2 Kgs 20:1 : 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.
  • 2 Kgs 20:6 : 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.

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    1 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah a 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 the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city of three days' journey.

  • Jonah 1:1-8
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    1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

    2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.

    3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

    4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty storm in the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.

    5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

    6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, perhaps that God will consider us, that we do not perish.

    7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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

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    7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.

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