If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Jonah
Chapter 1
001:001 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the
son of Amittai,
saying,
001:002 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry
against it; for
their wickedness
is come up before me.
001:003 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the
presence of
the LORD, and went
down to Joppa; and he found a ship going
to
Tarshish: so he paid the fare
thereof, and went down into it,
to
go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
001:004 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea,
and there was
a mighty tempest in
the sea, so that the ship was like to
be
broken.
001:005 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every
man unto his
god, and cast forth
the wares that were in the ship into
the
sea, to lighten it of them.
But Jonah was gone down into the
sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
001:006 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto
him, What meanest
thou, O sleeper?
arise, call upon thy God, if so be that
God
will think upon us, that we
perish not.
001:007 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and
let us cast
lots, that we may know
for whose cause this evil is upon
us.
So they cast lots, and the lot
fell upon Jonah.
001:008 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee,
for whose
cause this evil is upon
us; What is thine occupation? and
whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what
people
art thou?
001:009 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I
fear the LORD,
the God of heaven,
which hath made the sea and the dry land.
001:010 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said
unto him. Why
hast thou done this?
For the men knew that he fled from
the
presence of the LORD, because
he had told them.
001:011 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto
thee, that the
sea may be calm
unto us? for the sea wrought, and
was
tempestuous.
001:012 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me
forth into the
sea; so shall the
sea be calm unto you: for I know that for
my
sake this great tempest is upon
you.
001:013 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to
the land; but
they could not: for
the sea wrought, and was
tempestuous
against them.
001:014 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We
beseech thee,
O LORD, we beseech
thee, let us not perish for this
man's
life, and lay not upon us
innocent blood: for thou, O LORD,
hast done as it pleased thee.
001:015 So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into
the sea: and
the sea ceased from
her raging.
001:016 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and
offered a
sacrifice unto the LORD,
and made vows.
001:017 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to
swallow up Jonah.
And Jonah was in
the belly of the fish three days and
three
nights.
002:001 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of
the fish's
belly,
002:002 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction
unto the LORD,
and he heard me;
out of the belly of hell cried I, and
thou
heardest my voice.
002:003 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the
midst of the
seas; and the floods
compassed me about: all thy billows
and
thy waves passed over me.
002:004 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I
will look again
toward thy holy
temple.
002:005 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul:
the depth
closed me round about,
the weeds were wrapped about my head.
002:006 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the
earth with
her bars was about me
for ever: yet hast thou brought up
my
life from corruption, O LORD my
God.
002:007 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the
LORD: and my
prayer came in unto
thee, into thine holy temple.
002:008 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
002:009 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of
thanksgiving;
I will pay that that
I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
002:010 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited
out Jonah
upon the dry land.
003:001 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the
second time,
saying,
003:002 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and
preach unto it
the preaching that
I bid thee.
003:003 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according
to the word
of the LORD. Now
Nineveh was an exceeding great city of
three
days' journey.
003:004 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's
journey, and he
cried, and said,
Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be
overthrown.
003:005 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and
proclaimed a fast,
and put on
sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to
the
least of them.
003:006 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he
arose from his
throne, and he laid
his robe from him, and covered him
with
sackcloth, and sat in
ashes.
003:007 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published
through
Nineveh by the decree of
the king and his nobles, saying,
Let
neither man nor beast, herd
nor flock, taste any thing: let
them not feed, nor drink water:
003:008 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth,
and cry
mightily unto God: yea,
let them turn every one from his
evil
way, and from the violence
that is in their hands.
003:009 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and
turn away from
his fierce anger,
that we perish not?
003:010 And God saw their works, that they turned from
their evil way;
and God repented
of the evil, that he had said that he
would
do unto them; and he did it
not.
004:001 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
004:002 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray
thee, O LORD,
was not this my
saying, when I was yet in my
country?
Therefore I fled before
unto Tarshish: for I knew that
thou
art a gracious God, and
merciful, slow to anger, and of
great
kindness, and repentest thee
of the evil.
004:003 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my
life from me;
for it is better for
me to die than to live.
004:004 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
004:005 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the
east side of the
city, and there
made him a booth, and sat under it in
the
shadow, till he might see what
would become of the city.
004:006 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it
to come up over
Jonah, that it
might be a shadow over his head, to deliver
him
from his grief. So Jonah was
exceeding glad of the gourd.
004:007 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose
the next day,
and it smote the
gourd that it withered.
004:008 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise,
that God prepared
a vehement east
wind; and the sun beat upon the head of
Jonah,
that he fainted, and wished
in himself to die, and said, It is
better for me to die than to live.
004:009 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be
angry for the
gourd? And he said,
I do well to be angry, even unto death.
004:010 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the
gourd, for the
which thou hast not
laboured, neither madest it grow;
which
came up in a night, and
perished in a night:
004:011 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are
more then sixscore
thousand persons that cannot
discern
between their right hand
and their left hand; and also much
cattle?