¹³ Instead, the men rowed hard to return the ship to dry land, but they could not, because the storm on the sea kept getting worse for them. ¹⁴ So they cried out to the Lord and said, “Please, Lord, please do not let us perish because of this man’s life, and do not charge innocent blood against us, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.” ¹⁵ So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.