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 1:1
Jonah Tries to Run from the Lord
1:1 The Lord said to Jonah son of Amittai,
Jonah 2:1
2:1 Jonah prayed to the
Lord his God from the stomach of the fish
Jonah 3:1
The People of Nineveh Respond to Jonah’s Warning
3:1 The Lord said to Jonah a second time,
Jonah 4:1
Jonah Responds to God’s Kindness
4:1 This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.
Jonah 1:15
1:15 So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
Jonah 2:10
2:10 Then the Lord commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.
Jonah 4:6
4:6 The
Lord God appointed
a little plant
and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue
him from his misery.
Now Jonah was very delighted
about the little plant.
Jonah 1:7
1:7 The sailors said to one another,
“Come on, let’s cast lots
to find out
whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us.
” So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.
Jonah 3:3-4
3:3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the
Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city
– it required three days to walk through it!)
3:4 When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days,
Nineveh will be overthrown!”
Jonah 4:9
4:9 God said to Jonah, “Are you really so very angry
about the little plant?” And he said, “I am as angry
as I could possibly be!”
Jonah 1:3
1:3 Instead, Jonah immediately
headed off to Tarshish
to escape
from the commission of the
Lord.
He traveled
to Joppa
and found a merchant ship heading
to Tarshish.
So he paid the fare
and went aboard
it to go with them
to Tarshish
far away from the
Lord.
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 4:5
4:5 Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.
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!”