January 22, 2012, First Reading

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah   3: 1-5, 10

3:1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying:
3:2 Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city. And preach in it the preaching that I say to you.
3:3 And Jonah rose, and he went to Nineveh in accordance with the word of the Lord. And Nineveh was a great city of three days’ journey.
3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city one day’s journey. And he cried out and said, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed.”
3:5 And the men of Nineveh believed in God. And they proclaimed a fast, and they put on sackcloth, from the greatest all the way to the least.
3:10 And God saw their works, that they had been converted from their evil way. And God took pity on them, concerning the harm that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

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