Giona (يونان) 3

SMITH VAN DYKE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 ثم صار قول الرب الى يونان ثانية قائلا	1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
2 قم اذهب الى نينوى المدينة العظيمة وناد لها المناداة التي انا مكلّمك بها	2 "Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you."
3 فقام يونان وذهب الى نينوى بحسب قول الرب. اما نينوى فكانت مدينة عظيمة للّه مسيرة ثلاثة ايام.	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.
4 فابتدأ يونان يدخل المدينة مسيرة يوم واحد ونادى وقال بعد اربعين يوما تنقلب نينوى	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,"
5 فآمن اهل نينوى بالله ونادوا بصوم ولبسوا مسوحا من كبيرهم الى صغيرهم.	5 when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.
6 وبلغ الأمر ملك نينوى فقام عن كرسيه وخلع رداءه عنه وتغطى بمسح وجلس على الرماد	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.
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 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.
8 وليتغط بمسوح الناس والبهائم ويصرخوا الى الله بشدة ويرجعوا كل واحد عن طريقه الرديئة وعن الظلم الذي في ايديهم.	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.
9 لعل الله يعود ويندم ويرجع عن حمو غضبه فلا نهلك	9 Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that 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 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.