As we read, "Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day's walk announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed, " when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth."
Yonasi a nghena eNinivha, a famba-famba mpfhuka wa siku rin'we a ri karhi a huwelela a ku: "Ku sele ntsena masiku ya 40, kutani muti wa Ninivha wu ta mbundzumuxiwa." 5Kutani vaaki va Ninivha va kholwa marito ya Xikwembu; va lerisa vanhu ku titsona swakudya; hinkwavo ka vona, lavakulu ni lavatsongo, va ambala leswo khwaxa swa xirilo.