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Jonah 1:1-17
The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
But Jonah ran away from the Lord
and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for
that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to
flee from the Lord.
Then the Lord sent a great wind
on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break
up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they
threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
But Jonah had gone below deck, where
he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, “How
can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us,
and we will not perish.”
Then the sailors said to each
other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this
calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
So they asked him, “Tell us, who
is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you
come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”
He answered, “I am a Hebrew and
I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.”
This terrified them and they
asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord,
because he had already told them so.)
The sea was getting rougher and
rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down
for us?”
“Pick me up and throw me into
the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that
this great storm has come upon you.”
Instead, the men did their best
to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than
before. Then they cried to the Lord, “O Lord, please do not let us die for
taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man,
for you, O Lord, have done as you pleased.” Then they took Jonah and threw him
overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the Lord,
and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.
But the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah,
and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.Genesis 50:20
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
Proverbs 3:5,6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
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