jonah

¹And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying: ²Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes. ³And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord. ⁴But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. And a great tempest took place in the sea, and the ship was in danger of being crushed. ⁵And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep. ⁶And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”

⁴⁰For just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

³⁰For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.

⁴¹The men of Nineveh shall arise in judgment with this generation, and they shall condemn it. For, at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, there is a greater than Jonah here.

²⁹Then, as the crowds were quickly gathering, he began to say: “This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign. But no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

²And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish. ³And he said: “I cried out to the Lord from my tribulation, and he heeded me. From the belly of hell, I cried out, and you heeded my voice. ⁴And you have thrown me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood has encircled me. All your whirlpools and your waves have passed over me. ⁵And I said: I am expelled from the sight of your eyes. Yet, truly, I will see your holy temple again. ⁶The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head. ⁷I descended to the base of the mountains. The bars of the earth have enclosed me forever. And you will raise up my life from corruption, Lord, my God.

²⁵He restored the borders of Israel, from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Wilderness, in accord with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke through his servant, the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai, who was from Gath, which is in Hepher.

²And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish.

¹¹And shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men, who do not know the difference between their right and their left, and many beasts?”

¹And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. ²And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish. ³And he said: “I cried out to the Lord from my tribulation, and he heeded me. From the belly of hell, I cried out, and you heeded my voice. ⁴And you have thrown me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood has encircled me. All your whirlpools and your waves have passed over me. ⁵And I said: I am expelled from the sight of your eyes. Yet, truly, I will see your holy temple again. ⁶The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head.

⁴An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. And a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And leaving them behind, he went away.