Jonah 3:2 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Leave at once for the important city, Nineveh. Announce to the people the message I have given you."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

ASV:

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

BBE:

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

DBY:

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.

ERV:

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

JPS:

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.'

WBS:

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid thee.

WEB:

"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

YLT:

'Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

Jonah 3:2 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 1:17 "Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

Ezekiel 2:7 "But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

Zephaniah 2:13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

3:1-4 God employs Jonah again in his service. His making use of us is an evidence of his being at peace with us. Jonah was not disobedient, as he had been. He neither endeavoured to avoid hearing the command, nor declined to obey it. See here the nature of repentance; it is the change of our mind and way, and a return to our work and duty. Also, the benefit of affliction; it brings those back to their place who had deserted it. See the power of Divine grace, for affliction of itself would rather drive men from God, than draw them to him. God's servants must go where he sends them, come when he calls them, and do what he bids them; we must do whatever the word of the Lord commands. Jonah faithfully and boldly delivered his errand. Whether Jonah said more, to show the anger of God against them, or whether he only repeated these words again and again, is not certain, but this was the purport of his message. Forty days is a long time for a righteous God to delay judgments, yet it is but a little time for an unrighteous people to repent and reform in. And should it not awaken us to get ready for death, to consider that we cannot be so sure that we shall live forty days, as Nineveh then was that it should stand forty days? We should be alarmed if we were sure not to live a month, yet we are careless though we are not sure to live a day.

CONC:

Arise Bid Message Nineveh Nin'eveh Preach Preaching Proclaim Proclamation Rise Speaking Town

Arise Bid City Great Message Nineveh Nin'eveh Preach Preaching Proclaim Proclamation Rise Speaking Word

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