&#8220;Go immediately<n id="1" /> to Nineveh, that large city,<n id="2" /> and proclaim to<n id="3" /> it the message that I tell you.&#8221;

He said to them, &#8220;Pick me up and throw me into the sea to make the sea quiet down,<n id="1" /> because I know it&#8217;s my fault you are in this severe storm.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">When my life<n id="1" /> was ebbing away,<n id="2" /> I called out to<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">and my prayer came to your holy temple.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="1" /> to Jonah son of Amittai,<n id="2" />

Jonah prayed to the <sc>Lordsc> his God from the stomach of the fish

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Jonah<n id="1" /> a second time,

<t /><p class="bodytext">This displeased Jonah terribly<n id="1" /> and he became very angry.<n id="2" />

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out<n id="1" /> to his own god<n id="2" /> and they flung<n id="3" /> the ship&#8217;s cargo<n id="4" /> overboard<n id="5" /> to make the ship lighter.<n id="6" /> Jonah, meanwhile,<n id="7" /> had gone down<n id="8" /> into the hold<n id="9" /> below deck,<n id="10" /> had lain down, and was sound asleep.<n id="11" />

&#8220;Go immediately<n id="1" /> to Nineveh,<n id="2" /> that<n id="3" /> large capital<n id="4" /> city,<n id="5" /> and announce judgment against<n id="6" /> its people<n id="7" /> because their wickedness<n id="8" /> has come to my attention.&#8221;<n id="9" />

Because the storm was growing worse and worse,<n id="1" /> they said to him, &#8220;What should we do to you to make<n id="2" /> the sea calm down<n id="3" /> for us?&#8221;

Instead, they tried to row<n id="1" /> back to land,<n id="2" /> but they were not able to do so<n id="3" /> because the storm kept growing worse and worse.<n id="4" />

So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

<p class="poetry">I thought<n id="1" /> I had been banished from your sight,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that I would never again<n id="3" /> see your holy temple!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> commanded<n id="1" /> the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.p>

The ship&#8217;s captain approached him and said, &#8220;What are you doing asleep?<n id="1" /> Get up! Cry out<n id="2" /> to your god! Perhaps your god<n id="3" /> might take notice of us<n id="4" /> so that we might not die!&#8221;

But<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> hurled<n id="2" /> a powerful<n id="3" /> wind on the sea. Such a violent<n id="4" /> tempest arose on the sea that<n id="5" /> the ship threatened to break up!<n id="6" />

The sailors said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come on, let&#8217;s cast lots<n id="2" /> to find out<n id="3" /> whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us.<n id="4" />&#8221; So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.<n id="5" />

He said to them, &#8220;I am a Hebrew! And I worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> the God of heaven,<n id="3" /> who made the sea and the dry land.&#8221;

and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I<n id="1" /> called out to the <sc>Lordsc> from my distress,p> <p class="poetry">and he answered me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from the belly of Sheol<n id="3" /> I cried out for help,p> <p class="poetry">and you heard my prayer.<n id="4" />p>

So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the <sc>Lordsc> had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city<n id="1" /> &#8211; it required three days to walk through it!)<n id="2" />