Jonah 1:2-4

Common English Bible

² “Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come to my attention.”

³ So Jonah got up—to flee to Tarshish from the Lord! He went down to Joppa and found a ship headed for Tarshish. He paid the fare and went aboard to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord. ⁴ But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, so that there was a great storm on the sea; the ship looked like it might be broken to pieces.