Jonah 3:1 ASV: 


Sure, here's the ASV translation of: 
Jonah 3:1: 
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

Jonah 3:2: 
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jonah 3:3: 
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.

Jonah 3:4: 
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Jonah 3:5: 
And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Jonah 3:6: 
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:7: 
And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

Jonah 3:8: 
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

Jonah 3:9: 
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 3:10: 
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.