1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was in danger of being broken.
5 Then the sailors were afraid, and cried out every man to his god, and threw out the goods that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it from them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay down, and was fast asleep.
6 So the captain came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if perhaps God will think of us, so that we do not perish.
7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose sake this evil has come upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose sake this evil is upon us; What is your occupation? and from where do you come? what is your country? and of what people are you?
9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.
10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
11 Then said they to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm for us? for the sea was in motion, and was tempestuous.
12 And he said to them, Take me up, and throw me out into the sea; so shall the sea be calm for you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea was in motion, and was rushing against them.
14 Therefore they cried out to the LORD, and said, We plead with you, O LORD, we plead with you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.
15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.
16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell I cried out, and you heard my voice.
3 For you had thrown me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods surrounded me: all your billows and your waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.
5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul: the depth closed round about me, the weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was around me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple.
8 Those who observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
1 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I tell you.
3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe aside from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and announced throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do to them; and he did it not.
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and are sorry for the evil.
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I plead with you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the LORD, Do you do well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad for the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it struck down the gourd so that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun rose, that God prepared a furious east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.
10 Then said the LORD, You have had pity on the gourd, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?