This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:

“By the decree of the king and his nobles:

Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.(A)

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11 And should I not have concern(A) for the great city of Nineveh,(B) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

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Your righteousness(A) is like the highest mountains,(B)
    your justice like the great deep.(C)
    You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.(D)

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18 How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;(A)
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.(B)

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20 Even the wild animals pant for you;(A)
    the streams of water have dried up(B)
    and fire has devoured the pastures(C) in the wilderness.

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