Jonah 1:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² to go to the great city of Nineveh^[a] and say to the people, “The Lord has seen your terrible sins. You are doomed!”

³ Instead, Jonah ran from the Lord. He went to the seaport of Joppa and found a ship that was going to Spain. So he paid his fare, then got on the ship and sailed away to escape.

⁴ But the Lord made a strong wind blow, and such a bad storm came up that the ship was about to be broken to pieces.