American Standard Version of 1901
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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of {Or, your repentance}repentance:
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Jehovah's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.
It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.