ezekiel 47
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And the word of Jahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise,
go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their evil has
come up before Me. But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence
of Jahweh. And he went down to Joppa. And he found a ship going to Tarshish.
And he gave its fare, and went down into it, in order to go with them to
Tarshish, away from the sight of Jahweh. But Jahweh hurled a great wind
into the sea, and there was a great storm in the sea, so that the ship
was thought to be broken. Then the seamen were afraid, and each man cried
to his god. And they threw out the ship's articles in the ship, into the
sea in order to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the
ship; and he lay there, and was fast asleep. And the chief of the seaman
came to him and said to him, What is it to you, O sound sleeper? Arise,
call upon your God! It may be that our god will notice us, and we will
not perish. And they said, each one to his fellow, Come and let us cast
lots, so that we may know who has caused this evil to occur to us. And
they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. Then they said to him, Please
tell us, for what reason this evil has come on us. What is your business?
And where do you come from? Where is your country? And of what people are
you? And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jahweh, the God of
heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land. Then the men were afraid
with a great fear. And they said to him, What is this you have done? For
the men knew that he was fleeing from before the face of Jahweh, because
he had told them. Then they said to him, What shall we do to you, that
the sea may be calm to us? For the sea was going on and being stormy. And
he said to them, Take me up and throw me out into the sea. And the sea
shall be calm to you; for I know that this great storm has come on you
for my sake. But the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could
not, for the sea was going on and being stormy against them. And they cried
to Jahweh and said, We beg You, O Jahweh, we beg You, let us not perish
for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O Jahweh,
have done as it pleased You. And they lifted Jonah up and threw him out
into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared Jahweh
exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to Jahweh, and vowed vows. And Jahweh
had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly
of the fish three days and three nights.
And Jonah prayed to Jahweh his God out of the fish's belly, and he
said, I cried to Jahweh from my distress. And He answered me. Out of the
belly of Sheol I cried for help, and You heard my voice. For You cast me
into the depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers
and Your waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast off from Your eyes,
yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. Waters encompassed me, even
to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was
around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jahweh
my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jahweh; and my prayer
came in to You, into Your holy temple. They who take heed to lying vanities
forsake their kindness; but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving;
I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Jahweh! And
Jahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land.
And the word of Jahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying, Arise,
go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that
I am declaring to you. And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to
the word of Jahweh. And Nineveh was a very great city of three days' journey.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and
said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown! And the people of
Nineveh believed God. And they called a fast, and put on sackcloth, from
the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came to the king
of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne. And he laid his robe from him,
and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he cried out
and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great ones, saying,
Do not let man or beast, herd or flock taste anything; do not let them
feed, nor drink water. But let man and animal be covered with sackcloth,
and cry mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way,
and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knows? He may repent,
and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that
we do not perish? And God saw their works, that they turned from their
evil way. And God was compassionate over the evil that He had said to do
to them, and He did not do it.
But it was a great calamity to Jonah's eye, and it kindled anger in
him. And he prayed to Jahweh and said, Please, O Jahweh, was this not my
saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to
Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity. And now,
O Jahweh, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than
my life. And Jahweh said, Is anger rightly kindled in you? And Jonah went
out of the city and sat on the east of the city. And he made himself a
booth there and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would
happen in the city. And Jahweh God prepared a plant, and it came up over
Jonah, to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery.
And Jonah rejoiced with great joy over the plant. But God prepared a worm
as the morning dawned the next day. And it struck the plant, and it withered.
And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind.
And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked
for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life. And
God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he
said, My anger is rightly kindled, even to death. And Jahweh said, You
have had pity on the plant, for which you had not labored, nor made it
grow, which was a son of a night, and perished the son of a night. And
should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred
and twenty thousand men who do not know between their right and their left
hand, besides much cattle?
(prophet Jonah)
ezekiel 47
...interesting site!