Jonah 3:3-5

New Century Version

³ So Jonah obeyed the Lord and got up and went to Nineveh. It was a very large city; just to walk across it 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!”

⁵ The people of Nineveh believed God. They announced that they would fast for a while, and they put on rough cloth to show their sadness. All the people in the city did this, from the most important to the least important.