Instead, Jonah immediately<n id="1" /> headed off to Tarshish <n id="2" /> to escape<n id="3" /> from the commission of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="4" /> He traveled<n id="5" /> to Joppa<n id="6" /> and found a merchant ship heading<n id="7" /> to Tarshish.<n id="8" /> So he paid the fare<n id="9" /> and went aboard<n id="10" /> it to go with them<n id="11" /> to Tarshish<n id="12" /> far away from the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="13" />

<p class="poetry">I went down<n id="1" /> to the very bottoms<n id="2" /> of the mountains;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">the gates<n id="4" /> of the netherworld<n id="5" /> barred me in<n id="6" /> forever;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">but you brought me<n id="8" /> up from the Pit,<n id="9" /> O <sc>Lordsc>, my God.p>

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out<n id="1" /> to his own god<n id="2" /> and they flung<n id="3" /> the ship&#8217;s cargo<n id="4" /> overboard<n id="5" /> to make the ship lighter.<n id="6" /> Jonah, meanwhile,<n id="7" /> had gone down<n id="8" /> into the hold<n id="9" /> below deck,<n id="10" /> had lain down, and was sound asleep.<n id="11" />