⁴ Then Jonah began to go into the city, one day’s walk; and he ^(A)called out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

⁵ And the ^[a]people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a ^(B)fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. ⁶ Then the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, laid aside his mantle from him, ^(C)covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ^[b]ashes.