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Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,So that each one may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Yet Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, and paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

But Yahweh hurled a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship gave thought to breaking apart.

So the captain came near to him and said to him, "How is it that you are deeply sleeping? Arise, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish."

Then each man said to the other, "Come, let us have the lots fall so we may know on whose account this calamitous evil has struck us." So they had the lots fall, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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

So he said to them, "Lift me up and hurl me into the sea. Then the sea will become quiet for you, for I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you."

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

So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight.Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

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

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

Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, so God relented concerning the evil which He had spoken He would bring upon them. And He did not bring it upon them.

So now, O Yahweh, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life."

So Yahweh God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his miserable evil. And Jonah was extremely glad about the plant.

Then it happened that as the sun rose up, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and asked with all his soul to die and said, "Death is better to me than life."

So should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"

So I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,Planting places for a vineyard.And I will pour her stones down into the valleyAnd will lay bare her foundations.

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

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 payment,And a great man speaks the craving of his soul;So they weave it together.