Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

114 In the going out of Israel from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a strange people,

² Judah became His sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³ The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward.

⁴ The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.

⁵ What -- to thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, thou turnest back!

⁶ O mountains, ye skip as rams! O heights, as sons of a flock!

⁷ From before the Lord be afraid, O earth, From before the God of Jacob,

⁸ He is turning the rock to a pool of waters, The flint to a fountain of waters!

1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:

² `Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'

³ And Jonah riseth to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and goeth down [to] Joppa, and findeth a ship going [to] Tarshish, and he giveth its fare, and goeth down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.

⁴ And Jehovah hath cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great tempest in the sea, and the ship hath reckoned to be broken;

⁵ and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that [are] in the ship into the sea, to make [it] light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.

⁶ And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'

⁷ And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil [is] on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

⁸ And they say unto him, `Declare to us, we pray thee, on what account this evil [is] on us? what [is] thine occupation, and whence comest thou? what [is] thy country, seeing thou art not of this people?'

⁹ And he saith unto them, `A Hebrew I [am], and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'

¹⁰ And the men fear a great fear, and say unto him, `What [is] this thou hast done!' for the men have known that from the face of Jehovah he is fleeing, for he hath told them.

¹¹ And they say unto him, `What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

¹² And he saith unto them, `Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea doth cease from you; for I know that on my account this great tempest [is] upon you.'

¹³ And the men row to turn back unto the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more tempestuous against them.

¹⁴ And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

¹⁵ And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

¹⁶ and the men fear Jehovah -- a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to Jehovah, and vow vows.

¹⁷ And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

¹⁹ if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

²⁰ And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

²¹ for since through man [is] the death, also through man [is] a rising again of the dead,

²² for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

²³ and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

²⁴ then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --

²⁵ for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --

²⁶ the last enemy is done away -- death;

²⁷ for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, [it is] evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

²⁸ and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.