Jonah - Verse by Verse

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Jonah 1:13 (KJV) Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

 

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Jonah 1:14 (KJV) Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, 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.

 

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Jonah 1:15 (KJV) So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

 

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Jonah 1:16 (KJV) Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

 

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Jonah 1:17 (KJV) Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

 

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Jonah 2:1 (KJV) Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

 

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Jonah 2:2 (KJV) And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

 

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[bible]Jonah 2:3[/bible]

 

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Jonah 2:4 (KJV) Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

 

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Jonah 2:5 (KJV) The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

 

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[bible]Jonah 2:6[/bible]

 

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Jonah 2:7 (KJV) When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

 

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Jonah 2:8 Those who hold on to worthless idols abandon their loyalty to you.

 

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[bible]Jonah 2:9[/bible]

 

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Jonah 2:10 (KJV) And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

 

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[bible]jonah 3:1[/bible]

 

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Jonah 3:2 (KJV) Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

 

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[bible]Jonah 3:3[/bible]

 

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Jonah 3:4 (KJV) 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.

 

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Jonah 3:5 (KJV) So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.