Jonah 1:15-16
1:15 So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
1:16 The men feared the
Lord greatly,
and earnestly vowed
to offer lavish sacrifices
to the Lord.
Jonah 2:10
2:10 Then the Lord commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.
Jonah 4:3
4:3 So now,
Lord, kill me instead,
because I would rather die than live!”
Jonah 4:7
4:7 So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.
Jonah 1:9
1:9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew! And I worship
the
Lord,
the God of heaven,
who made the sea and the dry land.”
Jonah 1:17
Jonah Prays
(2:1)
1:17 The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 2:7
2:7 When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the Lord,
and my prayer came to your holy temple.
Jonah 3:2
3:2 “Go immediately
to Nineveh, that large city,
and proclaim to
it the message that I tell you.”
Jonah 3:10
3:10 When God saw their actions – they turned
from their evil way of living!
– God relented concerning the judgment
he had threatened them with
and he did not destroy them.
Jonah 1:5
1:5 The sailors were so afraid that each cried out
to his own god
and they flung
the ship’s cargo
overboard
to make the ship lighter.
Jonah, meanwhile,
had gone down
into the hold
below deck,
had lain down, and was sound asleep.
Jonah 4:8
4:8 When the sun began to shine, God sent
a hot
east wind. So the sun beat down
on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life,
and said, “I would rather die than live!”