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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jonah 1 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jonah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jonah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Jonah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../obadiah/1.htm" title="Obadiah 1">◄</a> Jonah 1 <a href="../jonah/2.htm" title="Jonah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jonah/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jonah Flees From the <span class="name">Lord</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to Jonah son of Amittai: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Jonah ran away from the <span class="name">Lord</span> 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 <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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.</p><p class="reg">But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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 so that we will not perish.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the <span class="name">Lord</span>, because he had already told them so.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then they cried out to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, “Please, <span class="name">Lord</span>, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, have done as you pleased.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>At this the men greatly feared the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and they offered a sacrifice to the <span class="name">Lord</span> and made vows to him.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jonah’s Prayer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now the <span class="name">Lord</span> provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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