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Jonah, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now the word of [1>]the LORD[<1] came to Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying, {1:2} "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and
proclaim against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
{1:3} But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the
LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he
paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from
the presence of the LORD. {1:4} But the LORD sent out a great wind on
the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was
likely to break up. {1:5} Then the mariners were afraid, and every man
cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the
sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost
parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. {1:6}
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean,
sleeper? Arise, call on your [2>]God[<2]! Maybe your [3>]God[<3] will
notice us, so that we won't perish."
{1:7} They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we
may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast
lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. {1:8} Then they asked him, "Tell us,
please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation?
Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"
{1:9} He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the
[4>]God[<4] of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
{1:10} Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What
is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from
the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. {1:11} Then they
said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to
us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy. {1:12} He said to them,
"Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for
you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."
{1:13} Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land;
but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against
them. {1:14} Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, "We beg you,
LORD, we beg you, don't let us die for this man's life, and don't lay
on us innocent blood; for you, LORD, have done as it pleased you."
{1:15} So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea
ceased its raging. {1:16} Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly;
and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.
{1:17} The LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah
was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
{2:1} Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish's
belly. {2:2} He said,
"I called because of my affliction to the LORD.
He answered me.
Out of the belly of [5>]Sheol[<5] I cried.
You heard my voice.
{2:3} For you threw me into the depths,
in the heart of the seas.
The flood was all around me.
All your waves and your billows passed over me.
{2:4} I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;
yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
{2:5} The waters surrounded me,
even to the soul.
The deep was around me.
The weeds were wrapped around my head.
{2:6} I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
The earth barred me in forever:
yet have you brought up my life from the pit, LORD my God.
{2:7} "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD.
My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
{2:8} Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
{2:9} But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
I will pay that which I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to the LORD."
{2:10} The LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the
dry land.
{3:1} The word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
{3:2} "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the
message that I give you."
{3:3} So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of
the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days'
journey across. {3:4} Jonah began to enter into the city a day's
journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be
overthrown!"
{3:5} The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a
fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
{3:6} The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes. {3:7} He made a proclamation and published through
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither
man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor
drink water; {3:8} but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man
and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn
everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his
hands. {3:9} Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn
away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
{3:10} God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way.
God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he
didn't do it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[2] {1:6} or, gods
[3] {1:6} or, gods
[4] {1:9} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[5] {2:2} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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