“Arise, go to (A)Nineveh, that (B)great city, and call out against it, (C)for their evil[a] has come up before me.” But Jonah (D)rose to flee to (E)Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to (F)Joppa and found a ship going to (G)Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to (H)Tarshish, (I)away from the presence of the Lord.

But (J)the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened (K)to break up.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah

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