Jonah 1:2

Jonah chapter 1 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Context

v.1Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

v.2This passage

v.3But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.

Cross references

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

  • Genesis 18:20

    And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

  • Ezra 9:6

    and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

  • Ezekiel 2:7

    And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

  • Nahum 1:1

    The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

  • Ezekiel 3:5

    For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

  • Jonah 3:2

    Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.