[Downbeat Hook] Gate after gate made one voice seem small, [Movement I] The word came again; the city stayed named, No easier harbor, no altered command. Arise, go to Nineveh, preach what I give, The rescued prophet must carry the warning. [Refrain] Gate after gate made one voice seem small, Empire in stone and a man by the wall. [Movement II] Yet forty days, yet forty days, Then Nineveh falls beneath what it has made. No decorated speech and no bargain declared, Only the number and overthrow in the air. [Movement III] The second commission was mercy to two: To Jonah who fled and the city he loathed. A short cry entered an exceedingly great place, [Coda] And forty days became room for a turn. Empire in stone and a man by the wall. Gate after gate made one voice seem small,