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[Ch. ii. 1 in Heb.]

1 Or, out of mine affliction

2 Heb. Sheol.

country? and of what people art thou? And he 9
said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear
the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made
the sea and the dry land. Then were the men 10
exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is
this that thou hast done? For the men knew
that he fled from the presence of the LORD, be-
cause he had told them. Then said they unto 11
him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea
may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more
and
more tempestuous. And he said unto them, 12
Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea;
so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know
that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them 13
back to the land; but they could not: for the
sea grew more and more tempestuous against
them. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, 14
and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech
thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and
lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O
LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. So they 15
took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea:
and the sea ceased from her raging. Then the 16
men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they
offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made
Vows. And the LORD prepared a great fish to 17
swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly
of the fish three days and three nights. Then 1 2
Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the
fish's belly. And he said,

I called 'by reason of mine affliction unto the
LORD,

And he answered me;

Out of the belly of hell cried I,

And thou heardest my voice.

For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the

heart of the seas,

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And the flood was round about me;

All thy waves and thy billows passed over

me.

And I said, I am cast out from before thine
eyes;

Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
The waters compassed me about, even to the
soul;

The deep was round about me;

The weeds were wrapped about my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;
The earth with her bars closed upon me for

ever:

Yet hast thou brought up my life from 'the 'Or,
pit, O LORD my God.

When my soul fainted within me, I remem-
bered the LORD:

And my prayer came in unto thee, into thine
holy temple.

They that regard lying vanities

Forsake their own mercy.

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice
of thanksgiving;

I will pay that which I have vowed.

Salvation is of the LORD.

10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

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corruption

And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah 2 the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching 2 Or, cry 3 that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. NOW Nineveh was an exceeding great 3 Heb. a city

See ch. i. 2.

4 city, of three days' journey. And Jonah began great unto God.

to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh 5 shall be overthrown. And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and

king &c.

2 Heb. said.

put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even

1 Or, For word to the least of them. 'And the tidings reached 6 came unto the the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And 7 he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: but let them be covered with 8 sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knoweth whether 9 God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and 14 he was angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, 2 and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the evil. There- 3 fore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than

3 Or, was beforehand in fleeing

4 Or, Art thou to live. And the LORD said, 'Doest thou well 4 greatly angry? to be angry? Then Jonah went out of the city, 5 and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. And the LORD God prepared a 6 gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, Heb. kikayon, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was

5 Or, Palma Christi

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7 exceeding glad because of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well 10 to be angry even unto death. And the LORD said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished II in a night and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city; wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

MICAH.

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THE word of the LORD that came to Micah 1 1 the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O 2 earth, and 'all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. For, behold, the LORD cometh 3 forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And 4 the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and 5 for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem? Therefore I will make Samaria as 6 an heap of the field, and as the plantings of a vineyard and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. And all her graven images 7 shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate for of the hire of an harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of an harlot shall they return. For this will I wail and howl, 8

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