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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?" + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): JONAH *** + +This file should be named 8259.txt or 8259.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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