Yunus 3
The word of Allah came to Yunus the second time, saying, 2"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."
3So Yunus arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Allah. Now Nineveh was a very large city, three days' journey across. 4Yunus began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
10God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented from the disaster which he said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.