Jonah 1

New King James Version

Jonah’s Disobedience

1 Now the word of the Lord came to ^(A)Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ²“Arise, go to ^(B)Nineveh, that ^(C)great city, and cry out against it; for ^(D)their wickedness has come up before Me.” ³But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to ^(E)Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to ^(F)Tarshish ^(G)from the presence of the Lord.

The Storm at Sea

⁴But ^(H)the Lord ^[a]sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.

⁵Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten ^[b]the load. But Jonah had gone down ^(I)into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.

⁶So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, ^(J)call on your God; ^(K)perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

⁷And they said to one another, “Come, let us ^(L)cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. ⁸Then they said to him, ^(M)“Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”

⁹So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear ^[c]the Lord, the God of heaven, ^(N)who made the sea and the dry land.”

Jonah Thrown into the Sea

¹⁰Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. ¹¹Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?”—for the sea was growing more tempestuous.

¹²And he said to them, ^(O)“Pick me up and ^[d]throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me.”

¹³Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, ^(P)but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them. ¹⁴Therefore they cried out to the Lord and said, “We pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and ^(Q)do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, ^(R)have done as it pleased You.” ¹⁵So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, ^(S)and the sea ceased from its raging. ¹⁶Then the men ^(T)feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and took vows.

Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance

¹⁷Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And ^(U)Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Notas al pie

Jonah 1:4 Lit. hurled
Jonah 1:5 Lit. from upon them
Jonah 1:9 Heb. YHWH
Jonah 1:12 Lit. hurl

Psalm 109

New King James Version

Plea for Judgment of False Accusers

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

109 Do^(A) not keep silent,
O God of my praise!
²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a ^(B)lying tongue.
³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me ^(C)without a cause.
⁴In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.
⁵Thus ^(D)they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him,
And let ^(E)an ^[a]accuser stand at his right hand.
⁷When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And ^(F)let his prayer become sin.
⁸Let his days be ^(G)few,
And ^(H)let another take his office.
⁹^(I)Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
¹⁰Let his children ^[b]continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them ^[c]seek their bread also from their desolate places.
¹¹^(J)Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.
¹²Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
¹³^(K)Let his ^[d]posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their ^(L)name be blotted out.

¹⁴^(M)Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And let not the sin of his mother ^(N)be blotted out.
¹⁵Let them be continually before the Lord,
That He may ^(O)cut off the memory of them from the earth;
¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the ^(P)broken in heart.
¹⁷^(Q)As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it ^(R)enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
¹⁹Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
²⁰Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person.

²¹But You, O God the Lord,
Deal with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
²²For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³I am gone ^(S)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.
²⁴My ^(T)knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
²⁵I also have become ^(U)a reproach to them;
When they look at me, ^(V)they shake their heads.

²⁶Help me, O Lord my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
²⁷^(W)That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, Lord, have done it!
²⁸^(X)Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let ^(Y)Your servant rejoice.
²⁹^(Z)Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

³⁰I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
Yes, ^(AA)I will praise Him among the multitude.
³¹For ^(AB)He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those ^[e]who condemn him.