World English Bible
Jonah 1:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
Verse in context — Jonah 1
1
Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.
3
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
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But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
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