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The LORD hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.

So the captain approached him and said, "How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish."

Each man said to his mate, "Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us." So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

So they said to him, "What should we do to you that the sea may become calm for us?"—for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy.

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

"So I said, 'I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk.

"Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish."

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant.

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, "Death is better to me than life."

'Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back.

"The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head."

"I will cut off your carved images And your sacred pillars from among you, So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands.

"My people, remember now What Balak king of Moab counseled And what Balaam son of Beor answered him, And from Shittim to Gilgal, So that you might know the righteous acts of the LORD."

"So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.

Concerning evil, both hands do it well. The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe, And a great man speaks the desire of his soul; So they weave it together.

Thus says the LORD, "Though they are at full strength and likewise many, Even so, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer.

"So now, I will break his yoke bar from upon you, And I will tear off your shackles."

"Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to himself all peoples.

"You have devised a shameful thing for your house By cutting off many peoples; So you are sinning against yourself.