Jonah 1:15

JPS Old Testament

So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Hebrew Names Version
So they took up Yonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

King James Version (1611)
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him foorth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

King James Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

English Standard Version
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

New American Standard Bible
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

New Century Version
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea became calm.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Legacy Standard Bible
So they lifted Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stood still from its raging.

Berean Standard Bible
At this, they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.

Contemporary English Version
Then they threw Jonah overboard, and the sea calmed down.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then they picked up Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

Darby Translation
And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the men threw Jonah into the sea. The storm stopped, and the sea became calm.

George Lamsa Translation
So they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Good News Translation
Then they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and it calmed down at once.

Lexham English Bible
And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

Literal Translation
And they lifted Jonah up and threw him into the sea. And the sea ceased from its raging.

American Standard Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Bible in Basic English
So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So they toke vp Ionas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea left raging.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

English Revised Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

World English Bible
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei token Jonas, and threwen in to the see; and the see stood of his buylyng.

Update Bible Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Webster's Bible Translation
So they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

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

New King James Version
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

New Living Translation
Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!

New Life Bible
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the storm stopped.

New Revised Standard
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they took up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, - and the sea, left off, her roaring.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.

Revised Standard Version
So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Young's Literal Translation
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So they toke Ionas, and cast him in to the see, and the see lefte ragynge.

THE MESSAGE
They took Jonah and threw him overboard. Immediately the sea was quieted down.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous. ¹² 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.' ¹³ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. ¹⁴ 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.' ¹⁵ So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging. ¹⁶ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. ¹⁷span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="jon.1.1" class="versetxt"> Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying: 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.' But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD; and he went down to Joppa, and 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. But the LORD hurled a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him: 'What meanest thou that thou sleepest? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.' 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. 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?' And he said unto them: 'I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.' Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him: 'What is this that thou hast done?' For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. Then said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 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.' Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 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.' So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Joshua 7:24-26, 2 Samuel 21:8, 2 Samuel 21:9

and the: Psalms 89:9, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 107:29, Matthew 8:26, Luke 8:24

ceased: Heb. stood

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 21:14 - God Psalms 65:7 - Which Mark 4:41 - feared

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they took up, Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea,.... They took him out of the hold or cabin where he was, and brought him upon deck; they took him, not against his will, but with his full consent, and according to the direction and advice he gave them: "they", for there were more than one employed in this affair; one or more very probably took him by the legs, and others put their hands under his arm holes, and so threw him into the sea:

and the sea ceased from her raging; immediately, and became a calm; and the wind also ceased from blowing, which is supposed; the end being answered by the storm, and the person found and obtained, what was sought after by it, it was still and quiet. The story the Jews m tell of his being let down into the sea to his knees, upon which the sea was calm, but became raging again upon his being taken up; and so, at the second time, to his navel; and the third time to his neck; is all fabulous; but he being wholly thrown in, it raged no more.

m Pirke Eliezer, c. 10. fol. 10. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They took up Jonah - ^o “He does not say, ‘laid hold on him’, nor ‘came upon him’ but ‘lifted’ him; as it were, bearing him with respect and honor, they cast him into the sea, not resisting, but yielding himself to their will.”

The sea ceased (literally “stood”) from his raging - Ordinarily, the waves still swell, when the wind has ceased. The sea, when it had received Jonah, was hushed at once, to show that God alone raised and quelled it. It “stood” still, like a servant, when it had accomplished its mission. God, who at all times saith to it Job 38:11, “Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,” now unseen, as afterward in the flesh Matthew 8:26, “rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm” . “If we consider the errors of the world before the Passion of Christ, and the conflicting blasts of diverse doctrines, and the vessel, and the whole race of man, i. e., the creature of the Lord, imperiled, and, after His Passion, the tranquility of faith and the peace of the world and the security of all things and the conversion to God, we shall see how, after Jonah was cast in, the sea stood from its raging” . “Jonah, in the sea, a fugitive, shipwrecked, dead, sayeth the tempest-tossed vessel; he sayeth the pagan, aforetime tossed to and fro by the error of the world into divers opinions. And Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, Joel, who prophesied at the same time, could not amend the people in Judaea; whence it appeared that the breakers could not be calmed, save by the death of (Him typified by) the fugitive.”