Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

114 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

² Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

⁵ What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?

⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?

⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the +God of Jacob,

⁸ Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

² Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

³ But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of Jehovah.

⁴ But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest upon the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

⁵ And the mariners were afraid, and cried every one unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to be lightened of them. But Jonah had gone down into the lower part of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

⁶ And the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.

⁷ And they said each one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

⁸ And they said unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

⁹ And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah, the God of the heavens, who hath made the sea and the dry [land].

¹⁰ Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this thou hast done? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of Jehovah: for he had told them.

¹¹ And they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

¹² And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that because of me this great tempest is upon you.

¹³ But the men rowed hard to regain the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

¹⁴ And they cried unto Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.

¹⁵ And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

¹⁶ And the men feared Jehovah exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto Jehovah, and made vows.

¹⁷ And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are [the] most miserable of all men.

²⁰ (But now Christ is raised from among [the] dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

²¹ For since by man [came] death, by man also resurrection of [those that are] dead.

²² For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.

²³ But each in his own rank: [the] first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.

²⁴ Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him [who is] God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.

²⁵ For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet.

²⁶ [The] last enemy [that] is annulled [is] death.

²⁷ For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, [it is] evident that [it is] except him who put all things in subjection to him.

²⁸ But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)