Jonah 3

Jonah 3:4

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

And when Jonah had spent one day in his preaching, and had gone through one third part of the city, crying and saying, There are but yet forty days to come, ere Nineveh, except it repent, shall be destroyed;

Jonah 3:5

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, &c.

The people of Nineveh believed that word of God, delivered to them by his prophet, &c.

Jonah 3:7

Let them not feed, nor drink water.

Let not the very beasts feed, nor drink water; that the men may be the more moved with that woeful moan, which those dumb creatures must needs make in their extremity.