| New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
| 1The LORD gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai: | 1Now this message from the LORD came to Amittai's son Jonah: |
| 2“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.” | 2"Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city! Then cry out in protest against it, because their evil has come to my attention." |
| 3But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the LORD. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the LORD by sailing to Tarshish. | 3But Jonah got up and fled from the LORD to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, secured passage on a ship bound for Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded, intending to go with the mariners to Tarshish to escape from the LORD. |
| 4But the LORD hurled a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm that threatened to break the ship apart. | 4Then the LORD sent a great wind over the sea, and a severe storm broke out. It seemed as if the ship were about to break up. |
| 5Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. But all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold. | 5At this point the mariners became terrified, and each man cried out to his gods. They began to throw the cargo into the sea in order to lighten the vessel. But Jonah had gone down into the vessel's hold, had lain down, and was fast asleep. |
| 6So the captain went down after him. “How can you sleep at a time like this?” he shouted. “Get up and pray to your god! Maybe he will pay attention to us and spare our lives.” | 6So the captain approached him, and told him, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Call on your gods! Maybe your god will think about us so we won't die!" |
| 7Then the crew cast lots to see which of them had offended the gods and caused the terrible storm. When they did this, the lots identified Jonah as the culprit. | 7Meanwhile, each crewman told another, "Come on! Let's cast lots to find out whose fault it is that we're in this trouble." So they cast lots, and the lot indicated Jonah! |
| 8“Why has this awful storm come down on us?” they demanded. “Who are you? What is your line of work? What country are you from? What is your nationality?” | 8So they interrogated him: "Tell us, why has this trouble come upon us? What's your occupation? Where'd you come from? What's your home country? What's your nationality?" |
| 9Jonah answered, “I am a Hebrew, and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.” | 9"I'm a Hebrew," he replied, "and I'm afraid of the LORD God of heaven, who made the sea—along with the dry land!" |
| 10The sailors were terrified when they heard this, for he had already told them he was running away from the LORD. “Oh, why did you do it?” they groaned. | 10In mounting terror, the men asked him, "What have you done?" The men were aware that he was fleeing from the LORD, because he had admitted this to them. |
| 11And since the storm was getting worse all the time, they asked him, “What should we do to you to stop this storm?” | 11Because the sea was growing more and more stormy, they asked him, "What do we have to do to you so the sea will calm down for us?" |
| 12“Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.” | 12Jonah told them, "Pick me up and toss me into the sea. Then the sea will calm down for you, because I know that it's my fault that this mighty storm has come upon you." |
| 13Instead, the sailors rowed even harder to get the ship to the land. But the stormy sea was too violent for them, and they couldn’t make it. | 13Even so, the crewmen rowed hard to bring the ship toward dry land, but they were unsuccessful, because the sea was growing more and more stormy. |
| 14Then they cried out to the LORD, Jonah’s God. “O LORD,” they pleaded, “don’t make us die for this man’s sin. And don’t hold us responsible for his death. O LORD, you have sent this storm upon him for your own good reasons.” | 14At last they cried out to the LORD, "Please, LORD, do not let us perish because of this man's life, and do not hold us responsible for innocent blood, because you, LORD, have done what pleased you." |
| 15Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once! | 15So they picked up Jonah and tossed him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging. |
| 16The sailors were awestruck by the LORD’s great power, and they offered him a sacrifice and vowed to serve him. | 16Then the men feared the LORD greatly, offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows. |
| 17 Now the LORD had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights. | 17 Now the LORD had prepared a large sea creature to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the sea creature for three days and three nights. |
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