Jonah 3

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:	1 ثم صار قول الرب الى يونان ثانية قائلا
2 "Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you."	2 قم اذهب الى نينوى المدينة العظيمة وناد لها المناداة التي انا مكلّمك بها
3 So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD'S bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it took three days to go through it.	3 فقام يونان وذهب الى نينوى بحسب قول الرب. اما نينوى فكانت مدينة عظيمة للّه مسيرة ثلاثة ايام.
4 Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day's walk announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,"	4 فابتدأ يونان يدخل المدينة مسيرة يوم واحد ونادى وقال بعد اربعين يوما تنقلب نينوى
5 when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.	5 فآمن اهل نينوى بالله ونادوا بصوم ولبسوا مسوحا من كبيرهم الى صغيرهم.
6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.	6 وبلغ الأمر ملك نينوى فقام عن كرسيه وخلع رداءه عنه وتغطى بمسح وجلس على الرماد
7 Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: "Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.	7 ونودي وقيل في نينوى عن امر الملك وعظمائه قائلا لا تذق الناس ولا البهائم ولا البقر ولا الغنم شيئا. لا ترع ولا تشرب ماء.
8 Man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God; every man shall turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in hand.	8 وليتغط بمسوح الناس والبهائم ويصرخوا الى الله بشدة ويرجعوا كل واحد عن طريقه الرديئة وعن الظلم الذي في ايديهم.
9 Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we shall not perish."	9 لعل الله يعود ويندم ويرجع عن حمو غضبه فلا نهلك
10 When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.	10 فلما رأى الله اعمالهم انهم رجعوا عن طريقهم الرديئة ندم الله على الشر الذي تكلم ان يصنعه بهم فلم يصنعه