Jonah 1:1-4

New American Standard Bible 1995

Jonah’s Disobedience

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

⁴ The ^(H)Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to ^[a]break up.