However, when Jonah declared the message of doom, “the men of Nineveh began to put faith in God, and they proceeded to proclaim a fast and to put on sackcloth, from the greatest one of them even to the least one of them. ”
Megjithatë, kur Jonai shpalli mesazhin e ndëshkimit, « njerëzit e Ninevisë nisën të tregonin besim te Perëndia, shpallën një agjërim dhe u veshën me copë thesi, i madh e i vogël ».