<h3>Jonah Goes to Nineveh</h3>3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. <h3>The People of Nineveh Repent</h3> 6 The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Jonah 3:1

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

“Arise, go to <cr>1</cr>Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”

Jonah 3:2

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now <cr>1</cr>Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,<ft>1</ft> three days' journey in breadth.<ft>2</ft>

Jonah 3:3

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

Jonah 3:4

<cr>1</cr>And the people of Nineveh believed God. <cr>2</cr>They called for a fast and <cr>3</cr>put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

Jonah 3:5

Jonah 3:6

The word reached<ft>1</ft> the king of Nineveh, and <cr>1</cr>he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, <cr>2</cr>and sat in ashes.

And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, <cr>1</cr>“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor <cr>2</cr>beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,

Jonah 3:7

but let man and <cr>1</cr>beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. <cr>2</cr>Let everyone turn from his evil way and from <cr>3</cr>the violence that is in his hands.

Jonah 3:8

<cr>1</cr>Who knows? God may turn and relent <cr>2</cr>and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

Jonah 3:9

When God saw what they did, <cr>1</cr>how they turned from their evil way, <cr>2</cr>God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Jonah 3:10

 1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to  Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now  Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,  three days' journey in breadth.  4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5  And the people of Nineveh believed God.  They called for a fast and  put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. 6 The word reached  the king of Nineveh, and  he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth,  and sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh,  “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor  beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and  beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God.  Let everyone turn from his evil way and from  the violence that is in his hands. 9  Who knows? God may turn and relent  and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did,  how they turned from their evil way,  God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

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The English Standard Version (ESV) is an English translation of the Bible. The ESV was published in 2001 by Crossway, having been "created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors." The ESV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. Crossway claim that the ESV continues a legacy begun by the Tyndale New Testament of precision and faithfulness in English translation of the original text, followed in the same standard by "the King James Version of 1611 (KJV), the English Revised Version of 1885 (RV), the American Standard Version of 1901 (ASV), and the Revised Standard Version of 1952 and 1971." Crossway describes the ESV as a translation that "emphasizes 'word-for-word' accuracy, literary excellence, and depth of meaning." Crossway also describes the ESV as a translation that adheres to an "essentially literal" translation philosophy, taking into account "differences in grammar, syntax, and idiom between current literary English and the original languages."

The ESV is derived from the 1971 text edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV). ESV Translation Oversight Committee member Wayne Grudem claims that approximately eight percent (or about 60,000 words) of the 1971 RSV text being used for the ESV was revised as of first publication in 2001. Grudem states that the committee removed "every trace of liberal influence that had caused such criticism from evangelicals when the RSV was first published in 1952." Although, Grudem also states that much of the 1971 RSV text left unchanged by the committee "is simply 'the best of the best' of the KJV tradition."

With regard to gender language, the ESV Translation Oversight Committee state that "the goal of the ESV is to render literally what is in the original."[9] The committee expands on this position in claiming that, although the ESV avoids using gender-neutral language (for the purpose of preserving contextual meaning found in the original text), the translation does utilize gender-neutral language in specific cases. The committee further state that their objective was "transparency to the original text, allowing the reader to understand the original on its own terms rather than in the terms of our present-day Western culture."[9] The ESV Study Bible often details in its commentary why a complementarian interpretation of the original text may have been rendered in translation.

OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997); additional sources in difficult cases
NT: UBS Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012)

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