1. The Lord’s word came to Jonah, Amittai’s son:
2. "Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come to my attention."
3. So Jonah got up—to flee to Tarshish from the Lord! He went down to Joppa and found a ship headed for Tarshish. He paid the fare and went aboard to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
4. But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, so that there was a great storm on the sea; the ship looked like it might be broken to pieces.
5. The sailors were terrified, and each one cried out to his god. They hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to make it lighter.Now Jonah had gone down into the hold of the vessel to lie down and was deep in sleep.
6. The ship’s officer came and said to him, "How can you possibly be sleeping so deeply? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps the god will give some thought to us so that we won’t perish."