Jonah 3:1-10: Translation and Comments

Jonah 3:1-10

1 And it happened the word of YHWH came to Jonah a second [time] saying, 2 “Get up and go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to her the proclamation which I am speaking to you.”

3 And Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of YHWH and Nineveh was a great city to God, a distance of three days.

4 And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day and he proclaimed and he said, “Still forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

Jonah 2:6-11: Translation and Comments

Jonah 2:6-11*

 

(*2:5-10 in English translations)

6 The waters encompassed me up to the neck,
the deep surrounds me,
reeds were wrapped around my head.

7 To the foundations of the mountains I descended,
the land, her bars [were] around me for an eternity
and you brought my life up from the pit, YHWH my God.