Jonah 1:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ Jonah said to them, “I am a Hebrew. I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the land and the sea.”

¹⁰ Jonah told the men he was running away from the Lord. The men became very afraid when they learned this. They asked Jonah, “What terrible thing did you do against your God?”

¹¹ The wind and the waves of the sea were becoming stronger and stronger. So the men said to Jonah, “What should we do to save ourselves? What should we do to you to make the sea calm?”