H9001–/וַ–v

Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.

וַיִּֽירְא֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great tempest is on you."

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Nevertheless 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.

וַיַּחְתְּר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."

וַיִּקְרְא֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ (וַ) va “and”

So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְטִלֻ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעֲמֹ֥ד (וַ) va “and”

Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

וַיִּֽירְא֧וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּֽזְבְּחוּ־ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּדְּר֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

וַיְמַ֤ן (וַ) va “and”וַיְהִ֤י (וַ) va “and”

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.

וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל (וַ) va “and”

He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֑נִי (וַֽ) va “and”

For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

וַתַּשְׁלִיכֵ֤נִי (וַ) va. “and”

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

וַתַּ֧עַל (וַ) va. “and”

"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

וַתָּב֤וֹא (וַ) va. “and”

Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיָּקֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,

וַיְהִ֧י (וַ) va “and”

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

וַיָּ֣קָם (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֛לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”

Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

וַיָּ֤חֶל (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָא֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמַ֔ר (וַ) va “and”

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

וַֽיַּאֲמִ֛ינוּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּקְרְאוּ־ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלְבְּשׁ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

וַיִּגַּ֤ע (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֙קָם֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעֲבֵ֥ר (וַ) va “and”וַיְכַ֣ס (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”

He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

וַיַּזְעֵ֗ק (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

וְנִחַ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.

וַיַּ֤רְא (וַ) va “and”וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם (וַ) va “and”

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

וַיֵּ֥רַע (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֖חַר (וַ) va “and”