Jonah:1-4
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Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai ,
saying ,
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Arise ,
go to Nineveh ,
that great city ,
and cry against it ;
for their wickedness is come up before me .
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But Jonah rose up to flee unto 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 thereof ,
and went down into it ,
to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD .
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But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea ,
and there was a mighty tempest in the sea ,
so that the ship was like to be broken .
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Then the mariners were afraid ,
and cried every man unto his god ,
and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea ,
to lighten it of them .
But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship ;
and he lay ,
and was fast asleep .
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So the shipmaster rab #
came to him ,
and said unto him ,
What meanest thou ,
O sleeper ?
arise ,
call upon thy God ,
if so be that God will think upon us ,
that we perish not .
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And they said every one 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 .
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Then said they unto him ,
Tell us ,
we pray thee ,
for whose cause this evil is upon us ;
What is thine occupation m @
la #
kah #?
and whence comest thou ?
what is thy country ?
and of what people art thou ?
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And he said unto them ,
I am an Hebrew ;
and I fear the LORD ,
the God of heaven ,
which hath made the sea and the dry land .
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Then were the men exceedingly gadowl #
afraid ,
and said unto him ,
Why hast thou done this ?
For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD ,
because he had told them .
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Then said they unto him ,
What shall we do unto thee ,
that the sea may be calm unto us ?
for the sea wrought ,
and was tempestuous .
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And he said unto them ,
Take me up ,
and cast me forth into the sea ;
so shall the sea be calm unto you :
for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you .
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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land ;
but they could not :
for the sea wrought ,
and was tempestuous against them .
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Wherefore they cried unto the LORD ,
and said ,
We beseech thee ,
O LORD ,
we beseech thee ,
let us not perish for this mans life ,
and lay not upon us innocent blood :
for thou ,
O LORD ,
hast done as it pleased thee .
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So they took up Jonah ,
and cast him forth into the sea :
and the sea ceased from her raging za #
aph #.
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Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly gadowl #
yir #
ah #,
and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD ,
and made vows .
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Now 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 .
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Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fishs belly me #
ah #,
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And said ,
I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD ,
and he heard me ;
out of the belly of hell cried I ,
and thou heardest my voice .
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For thou hadst cast me into the deep ,
in the midst of the seas ;
and the floods compassed me about :
all thy billows and thy waves passed over me .
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Then I said ,
I am cast out of thy sight ;
yet I will look again toward thy holy temple .
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The waters compassed me about ,
even to the soul :
the depth closed me round about ,
the weeds were wrapped about my head ro #
sh #.
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains ;
the earth with her bars was about me for ever :
yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption ,
O LORD my God .
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When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD :
and my prayer came in unto thee ,
into thine holy temple .
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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy .
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But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving ;
I will pay that that I have vowed .
Salvation is of the LORD .
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And the LORD spake unto the fish ,
and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land .
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And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time ,
saying ,
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Arise ,
go unto Nineveh ,
that great city ,
and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee .
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So Jonah arose ,
and went unto Nineveh ,
according to the word of the LORD .
Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey .
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And Jonah began to enter into the city a days journey ,
and he cried ,
and said ,
Yet forty #
arba #
iym #
days ,
and Nineveh shall be overthrown .
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So 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 .
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For word came unto the king of Nineveh ,
and he arose from his throne ,
and he laid his robe from him ,
and covered him with sackcloth ,
and sat in ashes .
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And 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 tso #
n #,
taste any thing :
let them not feed ,
nor drink water :
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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth ,
and cry mightily unto God :
yea ,
let them turn every one from his evil way ,
and from the violence that is in their hands .
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent ,
and turn away from his fierce anger ,
that we perish not ?
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And God saw their works ma #
aseh #,
that they turned from their evil way ;
and God repented of the evil ,
that he had said that he would do unto them ;
and he did it not .
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly gadowl #,
and he was very angry .
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And he prayed unto the LORD ,
and said ,
I pray thee ,
O LORD ,
was not this my saying ,
when I was yet in my country ?
Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish :
for I knew that thou art a gracious God ,
and merciful ,
slow to anger ,
and of great kindness ,
and repentest thee of the evil .
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Therefore now ,
O LORD ,
take ,
I beseech thee ,
my life from me ;
for it is better for me to die than to live .
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Then said the LORD ,
Doest thou well to be angry ?
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So 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 shadow ,
till he might see what would become of the city .
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And the LORD God prepared a gourd ,
and made it to come up over Jonah ,
that it might be a shadow over his head ro #
sh #,
to deliver him from his grief .
So Jonah was exceeding gadowl #
glad of the gourd .
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But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day ,
and it smote the gourd that it withered .
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And it came to pass ,
when the sun did arise ,
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 .
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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 .
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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 ben #,
and perished in a night ben #:
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And should not I spare Nineveh ,
that great city ,
wherein are more than sixscore sh @
nayim #
thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand s @
mo #
wl #;
and also much cattle ?