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The Holy
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Jonah
Chapter 1
1 Now the word of the
LORD came unto Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh,
that great city, and cry against
it; for their wickedness is come
up before me.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 So the shipmaster 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.
7 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 Chapter
8 Then said they unto him,
Tell us, we pray thee, for whose
cause this evil is upon us; What
is thine occupation? and whence
comest thou? what is thy country?
and of what people art thou?
9 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.
10 Then were the men
exceedingly 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 Nevertheless the men
rowed hard to bring it to the
land; but they could not: for the
sea wrought, and was tempestuous
against them.
14 Wherefore they cried
unto the LORD, and said, We
beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech
thee, let us not perish for this
man's life, and lay not upon us
innocent blood: for thou, O LORD,
hast done as it pleased thee.
15 So they took up Jonah,
and cast him forth into the sea:
and the sea ceased from her
raging.
16 Then the men feared the
LORD exceedingly, and offered a
sacrifice unto the LORD, and made
vows.
17 Now the LORD had
prepared a great fish to swallow
up Chapter And Jonah was in the
belly of the fish three days and
three nights.
Chapter 2
1 Then Jonah prayed
unto the LORD his God out of the
fish's belly,
2 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.
3 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.
4 Then I said, I am cast
out of thy sight; yet I will look
again toward thy holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me
about, even to the soul: the
depth closed me round about, the
weeds were wrapped about my
head.
6 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.
7 When my soul fainted
within me I remembered the LORD:
and my prayer came in unto thee,
into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying
vanities forsake their own
mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice
unto thee with the voice of
thanksgiving; I will pay that
that I have vowed. Salvation is
of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto
the fish, and it vomited out
Jonah upon the dry land.
Chapter 3
1 And the word of the
LORD came unto Jonah the second
time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh,
that great city, and preach unto
it the preaching that I bid
thee.
3 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.
4 And Jonah began to enter
into the city a day's journey,
and he cried, and said, Yet forty
days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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, taste any thing: let them
not feed, nor drink water:
8 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.
9 Who can tell if God will
turn and repent, and turn away
from his fierce anger, that we
perish not?
10 And God saw their
works, 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.
Chapter 4
1 But it displeased
Jonah exceedingly, and he was
very angry.
2 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.
3 Therefore now, O LORD,
take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for it is better for me
to die than to live.
4 Then said the LORD,
Doest thou well to be angry?
5 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.
6 And the LORD God
prepared a gourd, and made it to
come up over Jonah, that it might
be a shadow over his head, to
deliver him from his grief. So
Jonah was exceeding glad of the
gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm
when the morning rose the next
day, and it smote the gourd that
it withered.
8 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.
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.
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:
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?
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