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Jonah 1:14

Jonah chapter 1 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Wherefore they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Wherefore they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.

Context

v.13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

v.14This passage

v.15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 135:6

    Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

  • Isaiah 26:16

    Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

  • Jonah 1:16

    Then the men feared Jehovah exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto Jehovah, and made vows.

  • Ephesians 1:9

    making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

  • Deuteronomy 21:8

    Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

  • Psalms 107:28

    Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.