Jonah 3:1

And this was the word of prophecy from before the LORD with Jonah again, saying:

"And it was"- [for] a second time.

"And the word of God came to Yonah a second time."- We have already explained the meaning of "a second [time]" above [in] chapter one, verse one.

The second prophecy begins with "And the Word of G-d came to Yonah a second time" until the end of the book and it has two sections. The first begins here and the second with G-d asking Yonah "are you that deeply grieved?"And I have six questions.

The first question: Yonah called out that in 40 days Nineveh would be overturned. But this never happened, and we know that every word of prophecy is true, and how could the words of prophecy fall to the ground [unfulfilled]? And if you say that it was a conditional prophecy("if they repent [they will be spared]"/"If they do not repent [they will be destroyed]"), like the conditional prophecy in Jeremiah 18:7-9("For a moment I speak [about a nation... to be destroyed...]"/"And for a moment I speak [about a nation... to be built..."]), there is no doubt that since the people of Nineveh were gentiles they didn't know how to interpret a conditional prophecy, so Yonah should've made the condition clear in his warning to them so that the Word of G-d would be vindicated and the words of the prophet would be made true and would teach people to repent, and it should not be that the destiny [detailed by the prophecy] should be [taken as] certain and afterwards not be fulfilled.

The second question is about that which it says in the verse: "It was bad for Yonah and distressed him"- why was he so distressed, and why did he lower his face and consider this as a terrible thing for him? And what was made new to him now with this [occurring], for when he got onto the boat to flee to Tarshish he only did so because it was revealed and known to him that such would be- that they would repent and Hashem would relent from doing the evil he had said to do; and [also] he left the belly of the fish in order to do this [to deliver the prophecy]! What was he thinking in the beginning [such that he fled on the ship even though he knew that the prophecy would be fulfilled] and what was he thinking in the end, because after Hashem, blessed is he, commanded him a second time [to deliver the prophecy] and he went to do his mission, he went on condition of this[that they would repent], and what was made new to him now such that he was infuriated and it was such a bad thing for him?