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The Book of Jonah

Jonah 1

Jonah Flees from the LORD
(Nahum 1:1–15)

1Now the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3But Jonah arose 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 of it, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

The Great Storm
(Acts 27:13–26)

4But 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. 5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and cast the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6So the ship-master came to him, and said to him, What meanest you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, it may be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

7And they said everyone to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 8Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is your occupation? and whence comest you? what is your country? and of what people are you? 9And 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.

10Then 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.

Jonah Cast into the Sea

11Then said they to him, What will we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. 12And he said to them, Take me, and cast me into the sea; so will the sea be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them. 14Wherefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech 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.

15So they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. 16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.

17Now 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.

 

Jonah 2

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Jonah’s Prayer

1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,

2And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heardst my voice.

3For you hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods encompassed me: all your billows and your waves passed over me.

4Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.

5The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.

8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

10And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

 

Jonah 3

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The Ninevites Repent
(Matthew 12:38–42; Luke 11:29–32)

1And the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid you. 3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh will be overthrown.

5So 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. 6For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through 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: 8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10And 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.

 

Jonah 4

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Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion

1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2And 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 cheerful God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest of the evil. 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4Then said the LORD, Doest you well to be angry?

5So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. 6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8And it came to pass, when the sun rose that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

9And God said to Jonah, Doest you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death. 10Then 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: 11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?


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