Jonah Flees the Presence of the Lord
Now the
word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to
Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil[a] has come
up before me.” 3 But Jonah rose 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 the
fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence
of the Lord.
4 But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there
was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. 5
Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled
the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah
had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast
asleep. 6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper?
Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we
may not perish.”
Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea
7 And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots,
that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast
lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose
account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you
come from? 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 made the sea
and the dry land.” 10 Then the men were 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.
11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that
the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 12
He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet
down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come
upon you.” 13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard[b] to get back to dry land, but
they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 14
Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this
man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it
pleased you.” 15 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the
sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and
they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
Footnotes:
Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean
evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah
Jonah 1:13 Hebrew the men dug in [their
oars]
Jonah 1:17 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
Jonah 1:17 Or had appointed
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version.
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