e do to you, that the sea may be
calm for us?" for the sea grew more and more stormy. He said to them,
"Take me up and throw me into the sea, and the sea will be calm for you,
for I know that on account of me this great storm has overtaken you."
But the men rowed hard to get back to the land; they could not, however,
for the sea grew more and more stormy ahead.

Therefore they cried to Jehovah and said, "We pray thee, O Jehovah, we
pray thee, let us not die for this man's life, nor let us be guilty of
shedding innocent blood, for thou art Jehovah; thou hast done as it
pleases thee." So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and
the sea became calm. Then the men greatly feared Jehovah, and they
offered a sacrifice and made promises to him.

But Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside
the fish three days and three nights. There Jonah prayed to Jehovah his
God; and Jehovah spoke to the fish, and it threw Jonah out upon the dry
land.

This message from Jehovah came to Jonah the second time, "Arise, go to
that great city, Nineveh, and give to it the message that I tell you."
So Jonah started for Nineveh, as Jehovah commanded. Now Nineveh was so
large a city, that it took three days' journey to cross it. And Jonah
began by going through the city a day's journey, and he said, "Forty
days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown."

And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they ordered a fast and put
on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. And when word came
to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe,
dressed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he gave this order: "By the
order of the king and his nobles: Man, beast, herd, and flock shall not
taste anything; let them not eat nor drink water. Let both man and beast
put on sackcloth and let them cry earnestly to God; let them turn each
from his evil way and from the deeds of violence which they are doing.
Who knows but God may be sorry for us and turn away his fierce anger,
that we may not die."

When God saw that they turned from their evil way, he was sorry for the
evil which he said he would do to them, and did not do it.

But this displeased Jonah very much and he was angry. And he prayed to
Jehovah and said, "Ah, Jehovah, was not this what I said when I was
still in my own country? That was why I fled at once to Tarshish; for I
knew that thou art a God, gracious and merciful, patient, and loving