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“Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up before me.”[a] But Jonah set out to flee toward Tarshish from the presence of[b] Yahweh. And he went down to Joppa and found a merchant ship going to Tarshish, and paid her fare, and went on board her to go with them toward Tarshish from the presence of[c] Yahweh.

And Yahweh hurled a great wind upon the sea, and it was a great storm on the sea, and the merchant ship was in danger of breaking up.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:2 Literally “to my face”
  2. Jonah 1:3 Literally “from to face of”
  3. Jonah 1:3 Literally “from to face of”
  4. Jonah 1:4 Literally “threatened to be broken up”

“Go to the great city of Nineveh(A) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

But Jonah ran(B) away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish(C). He went down to Joppa,(D) where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.(E)

Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.(F)

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