¶ And he sayde: in my tribulacion I called vn to the lorde/ and he answered me: out of the bely of hell I cried/ ād thou herdest my voyce. For thou hadest cast me downe depe in the middes of the se: & the floud cōpased me aboute: and all thy waues & rowles of water wēt ouer me: & I thought [that] I had bene cast awaye out of thy sight. But I will yet agayne loke towarde thy holy temple. The water cōpased me euē vn to the very soule of me: the depe laye aboute me: ād the wedes were wrappte aboude myne heed. And I wēt downe vn to the botome of the hylles/ and was barredin with erth on euery syde for euer. And yet thou lorde my God broughest vp my life agayne out of corrupcion. When my soule faynted in me/ I thought on the lorde: & my prayer came in vn to the/ even in to thy holy temple. They [that] obserue vayne vanities/ haue forsakē him that was mercifull vn to them. But I wil sacrifice vn to the with the voce of thankesgeuinge/ & will paye that I have vowed/ that sauinge cometh of the lorde. ¶ And the lorde spake vn to the fish: and it cast out Ionas agayne vppon [the] drie lande. ¶ The .iij. Chapter. Then came the worde of the lorde vn to Ionas agayne sayenge: vpp/ ād gett [the] to Niniue that greate citie/ & preache vn to thē the preachynge which I bade [the]. And he arose & wēt to Niniue at [the] lordes cōmaundmēt. Niniue was a greate citie vn to god/ cōteynīge .iij. dayes iourney. ¶ And Ionas went to & entred in to [the] citie euen a dayes iourney/ and cried sayenge: There shall not passe .xl. dayes but Niniue shalbe ouerthrowen. ¶ And the people of Niniue beleued God/ and proclaymed fastynge/ ād arayed them selues in sackcloth/ as well the greate as the small of them. ¶ And [the] tydinges came vn to the kinge of Niniue/ which arose out of his sete/ and did his apparell of & put on sackcloth/ & sate hī downe in asshes. And it was cried ād commaunded in Niniue by [the] auctorite of [the] kinge ād of his lordes sayenge: se that nether mā or beest/ oxe or shepe tast ought at al/ & that they nether fede or drinke water. ¶ And they put on sackcloth both man ād beest/ & cried vn to God mightily/ ād turned euery man from his weked waye/ and frō doenge wrōge in which they were acustomed/ sayenge: who can tell whether god will turne & repent/ & cease from his fearce wrathe/ that we perish not? And when god saw theyr workes/ how they turned from theyr weked wayes/ he repented on [the] euell which he sayd he wold doo vn to them/ ād dyd it not. ¶ The .iiij. Chapter. Wherfore Ionas was sore discontent ād angre. And he prayed vn to the lorde ād sayd: O lord/ was not this my sayenge when I was yet in my contre? And therfore I hasted rather to fle to Tharsis: for I knew well ynough that thou wast a mercifull god/ ful of cōpassion/ long yer thou be angre and of great mercie and repentest when thou art come to take punishment. Now therfore take my life from me/ for I had leuer dye then liue. And the lorde said vn to Ionas/ art thou so angrie?