---
title: "Jonah 3 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/jonah/3/
description: "Jonas is sent again to preach in Ninive. Upon their fasting and repentance, God… Jonah 3 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
---

# Jonah 3

Jonah 3 is chapter 3 of 4 in the Book of Jonah. Here are all 10 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Jonas is sent again to preach in Ninive. Upon their fasting and repentance, God recalleth the sentence by which they were to be destroyed.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Jonah 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying:
2. Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city. And preach in it the preaching that I say to you.
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.
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.”
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.
6. And word reached the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne, and he threw off his robe from himself and was clothed in sackcloth, and he sat in ashes.
7. And he cried out and spoke: “In Nineveh, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, let it be said: Men and beasts and oxen and sheep may not taste anything. Neither shall they feed or drink water.
8. And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry out to the Lord with strength, and may man be converted from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
9. Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?”
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.

## Jonah 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam secundo, dicens:
2. Surge, et vade in Niniven, civitatem magnam, et prædica in ea prædicationem quam ego loquor ad te.
3. Et surrexit Jonas, et abiit in Niniven juxta verbum Domini: et Ninive erat civitas magna, itinere trium dierum.
4. Et cœpit Jonas introire in civitatem itinere diei unius: et clamavit, et dixit: Adhuc quadraginta dies, et Ninive subvertetur.
5. Et crediderunt viri Ninivitæ in Deum, et prædicaverunt jejunium, et vestiti sunt saccis, a majore usque ad minorem.
6. Et pervenit verbum ad regem Ninive: et surrexit de solio suo, et abjecit vestimentum suum a se, et indutus est sacco, et sedit in cinere.
7. Et clamavit, et dixit in Ninive ex ore regis et principum ejus, dicens: Homines, et jumenta, et boves, et pecora non gustent quidquam: nec pascantur, et aquam non bibant.
8. Et operiantur saccis homines et jumenta, et clament ad Dominum in fortitudine: et convertatur vir a via sua mala, et ab iniquitate quæ est in manibus eorum.
9. Quis scit si convertatur et ignoscat Deus, et revertatur a furore iræ suæ, et non peribimus?
10. Et vidit Deus opera eorum, quia conversi sunt de via sua mala: et misertus est Deus super malitiam quam locutus fuerat ut faceret eis, et non fecit.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: “Of three days' journey” … By the computation of some ancient historians, Ninive was about fifty miles round: so that to go through all the chief streets and public places was three days' journey.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Jan 24, 2027: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Jonah 3:1-5, 10
- Wed, Feb 17, 2027: Wednesday of the First Week in Lent — First Reading, Jonah 3:1-10
- Tue, Oct 5, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Jonah 3:1-10
- Wed, Mar 8, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the First Week of Lent — First Reading, Jonah 3:1-10

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).