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{\MT JONAH.



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\MM \VerseOne{1}{\SC{Now}} the word of the
{\SC{Lord}} came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

\VS{2}Arise, go to Nineveh,
{\ADD{that}} great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

\VS{3}But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the
{\SC{Lord}}, and went down
{\ADD{to}} Joppa; and he found a ship going
{\ADD{to}} Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\PP \VS{4}But the
{\SC{Lord}} sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

\VS{5}Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that
{\ADD{were}} in the ship into the sea, to lighten
{\ADD{it}} of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

\VS{6}So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil
{\ADD{is}} upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

\VS{8}Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil
{\ADD{is}} upon us; What
{\ADD{is}} thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what
{\ADD{is}} thy country? and of what people
{\ADD{art}} thou?

\VS{9}And he said unto them, I
{\ADD{am}} a Hebrew; and I fear the
{\SC{Lord}}, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry
{\ADD{land}}.

\VS{10}Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the
{\SC{Lord}}, because he had told them.

\VS{11}Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

\VS{12}And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest
{\ADD{is}} upon you.

\VS{13}Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring
{\ADD{it}} to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

\VS{14}Wherefore they cried unto the
{\SC{Lord}}, and said, We beseech thee, O
{\SC{Lord}}, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O
{\SC{Lord}}, hast done as it pleased thee.

\VS{15}So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

\VS{16}Then the men feared the
{\SC{Lord}} exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the
{\SC{Lord}}, and made vows.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}Now the
{\SC{Lord}} had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.




\Chap{2}\VerseOne{1}Then Jonah prayed unto the
{\SC{Lord}} his God out of the fish’s belly,

\VS{2}and said,

\par }{\Q I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the
{\SC{Lord}}, and he heard me;

\par }{\Q Out of the belly of hell cried I,
{\ADD{and}} thou heardest my voice.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For thou hadst cast me
{\ADD{into}} the deep, in the midst of the seas;

\par }{\Q And the floods compassed me about:

\par }{\Q All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight;

\par }{\Q Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The waters compassed me about,
{\ADD{even}} to the soul:

\par }{\Q The depth closed me round about,

\par }{\Q The weeds
{\ADD{were}} wrapt about my head.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

\par }{\Q The earth
{\ADD{with}} her bars
{\ADD{was}} about me for ever:

\par }{\Q Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O
{\SC{Lord}} my God.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}When my soul fainted within me I remembered the
{\SC{Lord}}:

\par }{\Q And my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;

\par }{\Q I will pay
{\ADD{that}} that I have vowed.

\par }{\Q Salvation
{\ADD{is}} of the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}And the
{\SC{Lord}} spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry
{\ADD{land}}.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And the word of the
{\SC{Lord}} came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

\VS{2}Arise, go unto Nineveh,
{\ADD{that}} great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

\VS{3}So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
{\SC{Lord}}. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

\VS{4}And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh
{\ADD{shall be}} overthrown.

\VS{5}So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

\VS{6}For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered
{\ADD{him}} with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

\VS{7}And he caused
{\ADD{it}} to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

\VS{8}but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that
{\ADD{is}} in their hands.

\VS{9}Who can tell
{\ADD{if}} God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

\VS{10}And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did
{\ADD{it}} not.




\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

\VS{2}And he prayed unto the
{\SC{Lord}}, and said, I pray thee, O
{\SC{Lord}},
{\ADD{was}} not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou
{\ADD{art}} a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

\VS{3}Therefore now, O
{\SC{Lord}}, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for
{\ADD{it is}} better for me to die than to live.

\VS{4}Then said the
{\SC{Lord}}, Doest thou well to be angry?

\VS{5}So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

\VS{6}And the
{\SC{Lord}} God prepared a gourd, and made
{\ADD{it}} to come up over Jonah, that
{\ADD{it}} might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

\VS{7}But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

\VS{8}And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,
{\ADD{It is}} better for me to die than to live.

\VS{9}And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry,
{\ADD{even}} unto death.

\VS{10}Then said the
{\SC{Lord}}, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

\VS{11}and should not I spare Nineveh,
{\ADD{that}} great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and
{\ADD{also}} much cattle?


\par }