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Book 32 Jonah
32:001:001 Now the word of the
LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,
saying,
32:001:002 Arise, go to Nineveh,
that great city, and cry against it; for
their wickedness is
come up before me.
32:001:003 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.
32:001:004 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.
32:001:005 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.
32:001:006 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.
32:001:007 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.
32:001:008 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?
32:001:009 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.
32:001:010 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.
32:001:011 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.
32:001:012 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.
32:001:013 Nevertheless the men
rowed hard to bring it to the land; but
they could not: for the
sea wrought, and was tempestuous
against them.
32:001:014 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.
32:001:015 So they look up Jonah,
and cast him forth into the sea: and
the sea ceased from her
raging.
32:001:016 Then the men feared the
LORD exceedingly, and offered a
sacrifice unto the
LORD, and made vows.
32:001:017 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.
32:002:001 Then Jonah prayed unto
the LORD his God out of the fish's
belly,
32:002:002 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.
32:002:003 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.
32:002:004 Then I said, I am cast
out of thy sight; yet I will look again
toward thy holy temple.
32:002:005 The waters compassed me
about, even to the soul: the depth
closed me round about,
the weeds were wrapped about my head.
32:002:006 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.
32:002:007 When my soul fainted
within me I remembered the LORD: and my
prayer came in unto
thee, into thine holy temple.
32:002:008 They that observe lying
vanities forsake their own mercy.
32:002:009 But I will sacrifice
unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay that that I
have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
32:002:010 And the LORD spake unto
the fish, and it vomited out Jonah
upon the dry land.
32:003:001 And the word of the
LORD came unto Jonah the second time,
saying,
32:003:002 Arise, go unto Nineveh,
that great city, and preach unto it
the preaching that I
bid thee.
32:003:003 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.
32:003:004 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.
32:003:005 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.
32:003:006 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.
32:003:007 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:
32:003:008 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.
32:003:009 Who can tell if God
will turn and repent, and turn away from
his fierce anger, that
we perish not?
32:003:010 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.
32:004:001 But it displeased Jonah
exceedingly, and he was very angry.
32:004:002 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.
32:004:003 Therefore now, O LORD,
take, I beseech thee, my life from me;
for it is better for me
to die than to live.
32:004:004 Then said the LORD,
Doest thou well to be angry?
32:004:005 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.
32:004:006 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.
32:004:007 But God prepared a worm
when the morning rose the next day,
and it smote the gourd
that it withered.
32:004:008 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.
32:004:009 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.
32:004:010 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:
32:004:011 And should not I spare
Nineveh, that great city, wherein are
more then sixscore
thousand persons that cannot discern
between their right
hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle?
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