Jonah 1:1-6

1The word of the Lord came to 1Jonah the son of Amittai saying, 2“Arise, go to 2Nineveh the great city and 3cry against it, for their 4wickedness has come up before Me.” 3But Jonah rose up to flee to 5Tarshish 6from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to 7Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

4The 8Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to 9break up. 5Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to 10his god, and they 11threw the 12cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it 13for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep. 6So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, 14call on your god. Perhaps your 15god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”