The Best Bible Verses in Jonah (ESV)

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Jonah

•   Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish…

•   Jonah 1:6 “the captain…said to him, ‘What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us’”

•   Jonah 1:9 he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

•   Jonah 1:10 “Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!”

•   Jonah 1:12 “hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come”

•   Jonah 1:16 "Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.”

•   Jonah 1:17 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

•   Jonah 2:2 “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, & he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, &you heard my voice.”

•   Jonah 2:6–7 “yet you brought up my life from the pit…When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD and my prayer came to you”

•   Jonah 2:9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!

•   Jonah 2:10  And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

•   Jonah 3:1–3 “Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, [2] “Arise, go to Nineveh…So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh”

•   Jonah 3:5 “And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.”

•   Jonah 3:6–8 the king of Nineveh…issued a proclamation…“let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way”

•   Jonah 3:9 “Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

•   Jonah 3:10 “When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do"

•   Jonah 4:4 “And the LORD said, ‘Do you do well to be angry?’”

•   Jonah 4:8 God appointed a scorching east wind…on the head of Jonah so that he was faint…he… said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

•   Jonah 4:11 should not I pity Nineveh...in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left