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.”

So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

The men feared the Lord greatly, and earnestly vowed to offer lavish sacrifices to the Lord.

Then the Lord commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

(2:1)The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the Lord, and my prayer came to your holy temple.

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

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.

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.

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!”