Giona (يونان) 3

SMITH VAN DYKE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 ثم صار قول الرب الى يونان ثانية قائلا	1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:
2 قم اذهب الى نينوى المدينة العظيمة وناد لها المناداة التي انا مكلّمك بها	2 Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 فقام يونان وذهب الى نينوى بحسب قول الرب. اما نينوى فكانت مدينة عظيمة للّه مسيرة ثلاثة ايام.	3 And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.
4 فابتدأ يونان يدخل المدينة مسيرة يوم واحد ونادى وقال بعد اربعين يوما تنقلب نينوى	4 And Jonas began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.
5 فآمن اهل نينوى بالله ونادوا بصوم ولبسوا مسوحا من كبيرهم الى صغيرهم.	5 And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
6 وبلغ الأمر ملك نينوى فقام عن كرسيه وخلع رداءه عنه وتغطى بمسح وجلس على الرماد	6 And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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.	7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water.
8 وليتغط بمسوح الناس والبهائم ويصرخوا الى الله بشدة ويرجعوا كل واحد عن طريقه الرديئة وعن الظلم الذي في ايديهم.	8 And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
9 لعل الله يعود ويندم ويرجع عن حمو غضبه فلا نهلك	9 Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?
10 فلما رأى الله اعمالهم انهم رجعوا عن طريقهم الرديئة ندم الله على الشر الذي تكلم ان يصنعه بهم فلم يصنعه	10 And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.