1. One day the Lord told Jonah, the son of Amittai,
2. to go to the great city of Nineveh 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 bought a ticket on a ship that was going to Spain. Then he 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.