1:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,
 saying,
1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it;
 for their wickedness is come up before me.
1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of
 Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and 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 Jehovah.
1:4 But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there
 was a mighty tempest upon the sea, so that the ship was like to
 be broken.
1:5 And the mariners were afraid, and cried every one unto his
 god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into
 the sea, to be lightened of them. But Jonah had gone down into
 the lower part of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
1:6 And the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What
 meanest thou, sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; perhaps God
 will think upon us, that we perish not.
1:7 And they said each one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast
 lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.
 And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
1:8 And they said 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?
1:9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah,
 the God of the heavens, who hath made the sea and the dry
 [land].
1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him,
 What is this thou hast done? For the men knew that he fled from
 the presence of Jehovah: for he had told them.
1:11 And they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that
 the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more
 tempestuous.
1:12 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
 because of me this great tempest is upon you.
1:13 But the men rowed hard to regain the land; but they could
 not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
1:14 And they cried unto Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, we
 beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay
 not upon us innocent blood: for thou, Jehovah, hast done as it
 pleased thee.
1:15 And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea:
 and the sea ceased from its raging.
1:16 And the men feared Jehovah exceedingly, and offered a
 sacrifice unto Jehovah, and made vows.
1:17 And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And
 Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
2:1 And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's
 belly;
2:2 and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah,
 and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou
 heardest my voice.
2:3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the
 seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and
 thy billows are gone over me.
2:4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I
 look again toward thy holy temple.
2:5 The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round
 about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the
 earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my
 life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
2:7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my
 prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.
2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of
 thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is
 of Jehovah.
2:10 And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah
 upon the dry [land].
3:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time,
 saying,
3:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the
 preaching that I shall bid thee.
3:3 And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the
 word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of
 three days' journey.
3:4 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!
3:5 And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,
 and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the
 least of them.
3:6 And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from
 his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself
 with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
3:7 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 anything: let them
 not feed, nor drink water;
3:8 and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry
 mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil
 way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
3:9 Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn
 away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil
 way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do
 unto them, and he did [it] not.
4:1 And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
4:2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not
 this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was
 minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art
 a gracious ùGod, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
 loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
4:3 And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for
 it is better for me to die than to live.
4:4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
4:5 And 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
 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
4:6 And Jehovah Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up
 over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver
 him from his trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of
 the gourd.
4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,
 and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a
 sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so
 that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might
 die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the
 gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.
4:10 And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which
 thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up
 in a night, and perished in a night:
4:11 and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city,
 wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons
 that cannot discern between their right hand and their left
 hand; and also much cattle?