Jonah 1:3-5

EasyEnglish Bible

³ But Jonah did not want to obey the Lord's command. He decided to run away to Tarshish.^[a] He went down to Joppa.^[b] There he found a ship that was ready to sail to Tarshish. After he had paid for the journey, he got into the ship. He wanted to go on the ship to Tarshish, to get far away from the Lord.

A big storm

⁴ Then the Lord sent a strong wind on the sea. The storm was so powerful that it almost broke the ship into pieces. ⁵ The sailors were very frightened. Each of them called out to his own god for help. They threw into the sea all the things that the ship carried. They wanted to make the ship as light as they could. Jonah had gone down into the bottom of the ship. He was lying down and he was asleep.