Jonah 3:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ So Jonah obeyed the Lord and got up and went to Nineveh. It was a very large city; just to walk ·across it [or through it all] took a person three days. ⁴ After Jonah had entered the city and walked for one day, he preached to the people, saying, “After forty days, Nineveh will be ·destroyed [overthrown]!”

⁵ The people of Nineveh believed God. They ·announced that they would fast [called for/decreed a fast], and they put on ·rough cloth [burlap; sackcloth; ^Cto show their sorrow and repentance]. All the people in the city did this, from the ·most important to the least important [^Lgreatest to the least].