However, when Jonah declared the message of doom, “the men of Nineveh began to put faith in God, and they proceeded to proclaim a fast and to put on sackcloth, from the greatest one of them even to the least one of them. ”
لٰكِنْ حِينَ أَعْلَنَ يُونَانُ رِسَالَةَ ٱلدَّيْنُونَةِ ،‏ « آمَنَ أَهْلُ نِينَوَى بِٱللهِ ،‏ وَنَادَوْا بِصَوْمٍ وَلَبِسُوا مُسُوحًا ،‏ مِنْ كَبِيرِهِمْ إِلَى صَغِيرِهِمْ » .‏