The LORD will cause the emperor to hear a rumor that will make him go back to his own country, and the LORD will have him killed there."

I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came."

Their emperor will run away in terror, and the officers will be so frightened that they will abandon their battle flags." The LORD has spoken---the LORD who is worshiped in Jerusalem and whose fire burns there for sacrifices.

From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

He said, "Go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against it; I am aware of how wicked its people are."

So Jonah obeyed the LORD and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to walk through it.

This is a message about Nineveh, the account of a vision seen by Nahum, who was from Elkosh.

On the Judgment Day the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you, because they turned from their sins when they heard Jonah preach; and I tell you that there is something here greater than Jonah!