Jonah 3:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

New Living Translation
The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.

English Standard Version
And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

Berean Study Bible
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

New American Standard Bible
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

NASB 1995
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

NASB 1977
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

Amplified Bible
The people of Nineveh believed and trusted in God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth [in penitent mourning], from the greatest even to the least of them.

Christian Standard Bible
Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth--from the greatest of them to the least.

Contemporary English Version
They believed God's message and set a time when they would go without eating to show their sorrow. Then everyone in the city, no matter who they were, dressed in sackcloth.

Good News Translation
The people of Nineveh believed God's message. So they decided that everyone should fast, and all the people, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth to show that they had repented.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The people of Nineveh believed God. They decided to fast, and everyone, from the most important to the least important, dressed in sackcloth.

International Standard Version
The people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important.

NET Bible
The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

New King James Version
So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

King James 2000 Bible
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

New Heart English Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.

American King James Version
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
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,

Darby Bible Translation
And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from ye greatest of the euen to the least of them.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the men of Niniue beleued God, and proclaymed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And the people of Niniue beleued God, and proclamed fastinge, and arayed them selues in sack cloth, as well the greate as the small of them.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And the people of Niniue beleued God and proclaymed fastynge ad arayed them selues in sackcloth as well the greate as the small of them.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least,

Young's Literal Translation
And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

Smith's Literal Translation
And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the men of Nineveh believed in God. And they proclaimed a fast, and they put on sackcloth, from the greatest all the way to the least.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the people of Nineva believed in God and they cut a fast and they put on sackcloth, from their Princes and unto their little ones

Lamsa Bible
So the people of Nineveh believed in God and decreed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
















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