Book of Jonah Quotes

“For the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.”

“Sailors can abide a great deal, but not a Jonah.”

“Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly.”

“But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”

“Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.”

“So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.”

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

“And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.”

“And he 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.”

“For I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.”

“But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.”

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

“And should not I spare 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?”

“And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.”