1:1 Now the word asleep. of the LORD came 1:6 So the unto Jonah the shipmaster came son of Amittai, to him, and said saying, unto him, What 1:2 Arise, go to meanest thou, O Nineveh, that sleeper? arise, great city, and call upon thy cry against it; God, if so be for their that God will wickedness is think upon us, come up before that we perish me. not. 1:3 But Jonah 1:7 And they rose up to flee said every one to unto Tarshish his fellow, Come, from the presence and let us cast of the LORD, and lots, that we may went down to know for whose Joppa; and he cause this evil found a ship [is] upon us. So going to they cast lots, Tarshish: so he and the lot fell paid the fare upon Jonah. thereof, and went 1:8 Then said down into it, to they unto him, go with them unto Tell us, we pray Tarshish from the thee, for whose presence of the cause this evil LORD. [is] upon us; 1:4 But the LORD What [is] thine sent out a great occupation? and wind into the whence comest sea, and there thou? what [is] was a mighty thy country? and tempest in the of what people sea, so that the [art] thou? ship was like to 1:9 And he said be broken. unto them, I [am] 1:5 Then the an Hebrew; and I mariners were fear the LORD, afraid, and cried the God of every man unto heaven, which his god, and cast hath made the sea forth the wares and the dry that [were] in [land]. the ship into the 1:10 Then were sea, to lighten the men [it] of them. But exceedingly Jonah was gone afraid, and said down into the unto him, Why sides of the hast thou done ship; and he lay, this? For the men and was fast knew that he fled from the presence raging. of the LORD, 1:16 Then the because he had men feared the told them. LORD exceedingly, 1:11 Then said and offered a they unto him, sacrifice unto What shall we do the LORD, and unto thee, that made vows. the sea may be 1:17 Now the calm unto us? for LORD had prepared the sea wrought, a great fish to and was swallow up Jonah. tempestuous. And Jonah was in 1:12 And he said the belly of the unto them, Take fish three days me up, and cast and three nights. me forth into the sea; so shall the 2:1 Then Jonah sea be calm unto prayed unto the you: for I know LORD his God out that for my sake of the fish's this great belly, tempest [is] upon 2:2 And said, I you. cried by reason 1:13 of mine Nevertheless the affliction unto men rowed hard to the LORD, and he bring [it] to the heard me; out of land; but they the belly of hell could not: for cried I, [and] the sea wrought, thou heardest my and was voice. tempestuous 2:3 For thou against them. hadst cast me 1:14 Wherefore into the deep, in they cried unto the midst of the the LORD, and seas; and the said, We beseech floods compassed thee, O LORD, we me about: all thy beseech thee, let billows and thy us not perish for waves passed over this man's life, me. and lay not upon 2:4 Then I said, us innocent I am cast out of blood: for thou, thy sight; yet I O LORD, hast done will look again as it pleased toward thy holy thee. temple. 1:15 So they 2:5 The waters took up Jonah, compassed me and cast him about, [even] to forth into the the soul: the sea: and the sea depth closed me ceased from her round about, the weeds were arose, and went wrapped about my unto Nineveh, head. according to the 2:6 I went down word of the LORD. to the bottoms of Now Nineveh was the mountains; an exceeding the earth with great city of her bars [was] three days' about me for journey. ever: yet hast 3:4 And Jonah thou brought up began to enter my life from into the city a corruption, O day's journey, LORD my God. and he cried, and 2:7 When my soul said, Yet forty fainted within me days, and Nineveh I remembered the shall be LORD: and my overthrown. prayer came in 3:5 So the unto thee, into people of Nineveh thine holy believed God, and temple. proclaimed a 2:8 They that fast, and put on observe lying sackcloth, from vanities forsake the greatest of their own mercy. them even to the 2:9 But I will least of them. sacrifice unto 3:6 For word thee with the came unto the voice of king of Nineveh, thanksgiving; I and he arose from will pay [that] his throne, and that I have he laid his robe vowed. Salvation from him, and [is] of the LORD. covered [him] with sackcloth, 2:10 And the and sat in ashes. LORD spake unto the fish, and it 3:7 And he vomited out Jonah caused [it] to be upon the dry proclaimed and [land]. published through 3:1 And the word Nineveh by the of the LORD came decree of the unto Jonah the king and his second time, nobles, saying, saying, Let neither man 3:2 Arise, go nor beast, herd unto Nineveh, nor flock, taste that great city, any thing: let and preach unto them not feed, it the preaching nor drink water: that I bid thee. 3:8 But let man 3:3 So Jonah and beast be covered with take, I beseech sackcloth, and thee, my life cry mightily unto from me; for [it God: yea, let is] better for me them turn every to die than to one from his evil live. way, and from the 4:4 Then said violence that the LORD, Doest [is] in their thou well to be hands. angry? 3:9 Who can tell 4:5 So Jonah [if] God will went out of the turn and repent, city, and sat on and turn away the east side of from his fierce the city, and anger, that we there made him a perish not? booth, and sat 3:10 And God saw under it in the their works, that shadow, till he they turned from might see what their evil way; would become of and God repented the city. of the evil, that 4:6 And the LORD he had said that God prepared a he would do unto gourd, and made them; and he did [it] to come up [it] not. over Jonah, that 4:1 But it it might be a displeased Jonah shadow over his exceedingly, and head, to deliver he was very him from his angry. grief. So Jonah 4:2 And he was exceeding prayed unto the glad of the LORD, and said, I gourd. pray thee, O 4:7 But God LORD, [was] not prepared a worm this my saying, when the morning when I was yet in rose the next my country? day, and it smote Therefore I fled the gourd that it before unto withered. Tarshish: for I 4:8 And it came knew that thou to pass, when the [art] a gracious sun did arise, God, and that God prepared merciful, slow to a vehement east anger, and of wind; and the sun great kindness, beat upon the and repentest head of Jonah, thee of the evil. that he fainted, and wished in 4:3 Therefore himself to die, now, O LORD, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live. 4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death. 4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle? ^Z^Z ~~~~~~