Bible Jonah

THE BOOK OF
JONAH
CHAPTER 1 upon us." So they cast lots,
1 Now the word of the LORD and the lot fell upon Jonah.
came to Jonah the son of 8 Then they said to him, "Tell
Amit'tai, saying, us, on whose account this evil
2 "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that has come upon us? What is
great city, and cry against it; your occupation? And whence
for their wickedness has come do you come? What is your
up before me." country? And of what people
3 But Jonah rose to flee to are you?"
Tarshish from the presence of 9 And he said to them, "I am
the LORD. He went down to a Hebrew; and I fear the
Joppa and found a ship going LORD, the God of heaven, who
to Tarshish; so he paid the made the sea and the dry
fare, and went on board, to go land."
with them to Tarshish, away 10 Then the men were ex-
from the presence of the ceedingly afraid, and said to
LORD. him, "What is this that you
4 But the LORD hurled a have done!" For the men knew
great wind upon the sea, and that he was fleeing from the
there was a mighty tempest presence of the LORD, be-
on the sea, so that the ship cause he had told them.
threatened to break up. 11 Then they said to him,
5 Then the mariners were "What shall we do to you, that
afraid, and each cried to his the sea may quiet down for
god; and they threw the wares us?" For the sea grew more
that were in the ship into the and more tempestuous.
sea, to lighten it for them. But 12 He said to them, "Take me
Jonah had gone down into the up and throw me into the sea;
inner part of the ship and had then the sea will quiet down
lain down, and was fast for you; for I know it is be-
asleep. cause of me that this great
6 So the captain came and tempest has come upon you."
said to him, "What do you 13 Nevertheless the men
mean, you sleeper? Arise, call rowed hard to bring the ship
upon your god! Perhaps the back to land, but they could
god will give a thought to us, not, for the sea grew more
that we do not perish." and more tempestuous
7 And they said to one anoth- against them.
er, "Come, let us cast lots, 14 Therefore they cried to
that we may know on whose the LORD, "We beseech thee,
account this evil has come O LORD, let us not perish for
1
JONAH
this man's life, and lay not on 7 When my soul fainted with-
us innocent blood; for thou, O in me, I remembered the
LORD, hast done as it pleased LORD; and my prayer came to
thee." thee, into thy holy temple.
15 So they took up Jonah and 8 Those who pay regard to
threw him into the sea; and vain idols forsake their true
the sea ceased from its rag- loyalty.
ing. 9 But I with the voice of
16 Then the men feared the thanksgiving will sacrifice to
LORD exceedingly, and they thee; what I have vowed I will
offered a sacrifice to the LORD pay. Deliverance belongs to
and made vows. the LORD!"
17 And the LORD appointed a 10 And the LORD spoke to
great fish to swallow up Jonah; the fish, and it vomited out
and Jonah was in the belly of Jonah upon the dry land.
the fish three days and three
nights. CHAPTER 3
1 Then the word of the LORD
CHAPTER 2 came to Jonah the second
1 Then Jonah prayed to the time, saying,
LORD his God from the belly of 2 "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that
the fish, great city, and proclaim to it
2 saying, "I called to the the message that I tell you."
LORD, out of my distress, and 3 So Jonah arose and went to
he answered me; out of the Nin'eveh, according to the
belly of Sheol I cried, and thou word of the LORD. Now
didst hear my voice. Nin'eveh was an exceedingly
3 For thou didst cast me into great city, three days' journey
the deep, into the heart of the in breadth.
seas, and the flood was round 4 Jonah began to go into the
about me; all thy waves and city, going a day's journey.
thy billows passed over me. And he cried, "Yet forty days,
4 Then I said, `I am cast out and Nin'eveh shall be over-
from thy presence; how shall I thrown!"
again look upon thy holy tem- 5 And the people of Nin'eveh
ple?' believed God; they proclaimed
5 The waters closed in over a fast, and put on sackcloth,
me, the deep was round about from the greatest of them to
me; weeds were wrapped the least of them.
about my head 6 Then tidings reached the
6 at the roots of the moun- king of Nin'eveh, and he arose
tains. I went down to the land from his throne, removed his
whose bars closed upon me robe, and covered himself
for ever; yet thou didst bring with sackcloth, and sat in ash-
up my life from the Pit, O es.
LORD my God. 7 And he made proclamation
2
JONAH
and published through see what would become of the

Nin'eveh, "By the decree of city.
the king and his nobles: Let 6 And the LORD God appoint-
neither man nor beast, herd ed a plant, and made it come
nor flock, taste anything; let up over Jonah, that it might be
them not feed, or drink water, a shade over his head, to save
8 but let man and beast be him from his discomfort. So
covered with sackcloth, and Jonah was exceedingly glad
let them cry mightily to God; because of the plant.
yea, let every one turn from 7 But when dawn came up
his evil way and from the vio- the next day, God appointed a
lence which is in his hands. worm which attacked the
9 Who knows, God may yet plant, so that it withered.
repent and turn from his fierce 8 When the sun rose, God ap-
anger, so that we perish not?" pointed a sultry east wind,
10 When God saw what they and the sun beat upon the
did, how they turned from head of Jonah so that he was
their evil way, God repented faint; and he asked that he
of the evil which he had said might die, and said, "It is bet-
he would do to them; and he ter for me to die than to live."
did not do it. 9 But God said to Jonah, "Do
you do well to be angry for
CHAPTER 4 the plant?" And he said, "I do
1 But it displeased Jonah ex- well to be angry, angry
ceedingly, and he was angry. enough to die."
2 And he prayed to the LORD 10 And the LORD said, "You
and said, "I pray thee, LORD, pity the plant, for which you
is not this what I said when I did not labor, nor did you
was yet in my country? That is make it grow, which came into
why I made haste to flee to being in a night, and perished
Tarshish; for I knew that thou in a night.
art a gracious God and merci- 11 And should not I pity
ful, slow to anger, and Nin'eveh, that great city, in
abounding in steadfast love, which there are more than a
and repentest of evil. hundred and twenty thousand
3 Therefore now, O LORD, persons who do not know their
take my life from me, I be- right hand from their left, and
seech thee, for it is better for also much cattle?"
me to die than to live."
4 And the LORD said, "Do you
do well to be angry?"
5 Then Jonah went out of the
city and sat to the east of the
city, and made a booth for
himself there. He sat under it
in the shade, till he should

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