Jonah 1

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai:	1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
2 "Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; their wickedness has come up before me."	2 Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.
3 But Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish away from the LORD. He went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and went aboard to journey with them to Tarshish, away from the LORD.	3 And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord.
4 The LORD, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea, and in the furious tempest that arose the ship was on the point of breaking up.	4 But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. And a great tempest took place in the sea, and the ship was in danger of being crushed.
5 Then the mariners became frightened and each one cried to his god. To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, and lay there fast asleep.	5 And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep.
6 The captain came to him and said, "What are you doing asleep? Rise up, call upon your God! Perhaps God will be mindful of us so that we may not perish."	6 And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”
7 Then they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots to find out on whose account we have met with this misfortune." So they cast lots, and thus singled out Jonah.	7 And a man said to his shipmate, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know why this disaster is upon us.” And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 "Tell us," they said, "what is your business? Where do you come from? What is your country, and to what people do you belong?"	8 And they said to him: “Explain to us what is the reason that this disaster is upon us. What is your work? Which is your country? And where are you going? Or which people are you from?”
9 "I am a Hebrew," Jonah answered them; "I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."	9 And he said to them, “I am Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
10 Now the men were seized with great fear and said to him, "How could you do such a thing!"--They knew that he was fleeing from the LORD, because he had told them.--	10 And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, “Why have you done this?” (For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.)
11 "What shall we do with you," they asked, "that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea was growing more and more turbulent.	11 And they said to him, “What are we to do with you, so that the sea will cease for us?” For the sea flowed and swelled.
12 Jonah said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea, that it may quiet down for you; since I know it is because of me that this violent storm has come upon you."	12 And he said to them, “Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea will cease for you. For I know that it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”
13 Still the men rowed hard to regain the land, but they could not, for the sea grew ever more turbulent.	13 And the men were rowing, so as to return to dry land, but they did not succeed. For the sea flowed and swelled against them.
14 Then they cried to the LORD: "We beseech you, O LORD, let us not perish for taking this man's life; do not charge us with shedding innocent blood, for you, LORD, have done as you saw fit."	14 And they cried out to the Lord, and they said, “We beseech you, Lord, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not attribute to us innocent blood. For you, Lord, have done just as it pleased you.”
15 Then they took Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea's raging abated.	15 And they took Jonah and cast him into the sea. And the sea was stilled from its fury.
16 Struck with great fear of the LORD, the men offered sacrifice and made vows to him.	16 And the men feared the Lord greatly, and they sacrificed victims to the Lord, and they made vows.