# Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city

"Go to the important city of Nineveh"

# Get up and go

This is a common expression for traveling to distant places. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# speak out against it

God is referring to the people of the city. Alternate translation: "warn the people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# their wickedness has risen up before me

"I know they have been continually sinning"