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+Title: The World English Bible (WEB): Jonah
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): JONAH ***
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+Book 32 Jonah
+001:001 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
+001:002 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it,
+        for their wickedness has come up before me."
+001:003 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
+        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 Yahweh.
+001:004 But Yahweh 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.
+001:005 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god.
+        They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea,
+        to lighten it.  But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts
+        of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
+001:006 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do
+        you mean, sleeper?  Arise, call on your God{or, gods}!
+        Maybe your God{or, gods} will notice us, so that we won't perish."
+001:007 They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots,
+        that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us."
+        So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
+001:008 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?"
+001:009 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God
+        of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
+001:010 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 Yahweh, because he had told them.
+001:011 Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea
+        may be calm to us?"  For the sea grew more and more stormy.
+001:012 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."
+001:013 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.
+001:014 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you,
+        Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life,
+        and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done
+        as it pleased you."
+001:015 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea
+        ceased its raging.
+001:016 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered
+        a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
+001:017 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah
+        was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
+002:001 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
+002:002 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
+        He answered me.  Out of the belly of Sheol I cried.
+        You heard my voice.
+002:003 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.
+002:004 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look
+        again toward your holy temple.'
+002:005 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul.  The deep was around me.
+        The weeds were wrapped around my head.
+002:006 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,
+        Yahweh my God.
+002:007 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.
+        My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
+002:008 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
+002:009 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
+        I will pay that which I have vowed.  Salvation belongs to Yahweh."
+002:010 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
+003:001 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
+003:002 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it
+        the message that I give you."
+003:003 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word
+        of Yahweh.  Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,
+        three days' journey across.
+003:004 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!"
+003:005 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast,
+        and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to
+        the least of them.
+003:006 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.
+003:007 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;
+003:008 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.
+003:009 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away
+        from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
+003:010 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.
+004:001 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
+004:002 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I
+        said when I was still in my own country?  Therefore I hurried
+        to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God,
+        and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
+        and you relent of doing harm.
+004:003 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me;
+        for it is better for me to die than to live."
+004:004 Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
+004:005 Then 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 shade,
+        until he might see what would become of the city.
+004:006 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah,
+        that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him
+        from his discomfort.  So Jonah was exceedingly glad because
+        of the vine.
+004:007 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed
+        on the vine, so that it withered.
+004:008 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry
+        east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted,
+        and requested for himself that he might die, and said,
+        "It is better for me to die than to live."
+004:009 God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?"
+        He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."
+004:010 Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine,
+        for which you have not labored, neither made it grow;
+        which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
+004:011 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city,
+        in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons
+        who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand;
+        and also much livestock?"
+
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