^{7 Ref} and he crieth and saith in Nineveh by a decree of the king and his great ones, saying, `Man and beast, herd and flock -- let them not taste anything, let them not feed, even water let them not drink;

^{8 Ref} and cover themselves `with' sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that `is' in their hands.

^{9 Ref} Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'