¹¹ From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

⁶ And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

¹ The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

² Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

⁸ Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)

¹³ And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

⁷ And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

⁸ And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

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

² Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

³ So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

⁴ And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

⁵ And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

⁶ And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

⁷ And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:

⁸ And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.

⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

¹⁰ And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

³ Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

²² There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:

²³ Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:

³⁷ Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

² Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.

³⁶ So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

²⁴ But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

²² But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.