H9002–/וְ–v

So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

וְנַפִּ֣ילָה (וְ) ve. “so”וְנֵ֣דְעָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “so”

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?"

וּמֵאַ֣יִן (וּ) u. “and”וְאֵֽי־ (וְ) ve. “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."

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “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.

וְיִשְׁתֹּ֥ק (וְ) ve. “so”וְסֹעֵֽר׃ (וְ) ve. “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."

וַהֲטִילֻ֣נִי (וַ) va. “and”וְיִשְׁתֹּ֥ק (וְ) ve. “so”

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.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְסֹעֵ֖ר (וְ) ve. “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."

וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה (וּ) u. “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.

וְנָהָ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַלֶּ֖יךָ (וְ) ve. “and”

I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

וַאֲנִ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh."

וַאֲנִ֗י (וַ) va. “and”

"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

וִּקְרָ֤א (וִּ) vi “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.

וְנִֽינְוֵ֗ה (וְ) ve. “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!"

וְנִֽינְוֵ֖ה (וְ) ve. “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.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “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;

וּגְדֹלָ֖יו (וּ) u. “and”וְהַבְּהֵמָ֜ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַצֹּ֗אן (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַ֖יִם (וּ) u. “and”

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

וְיִתְכַּסּ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַבְּהֵמָ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְיִקְרְא֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָשֻׁ֗בוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִן־ (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְלֹ֥א (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.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of the evil.

וְרַח֔וּם (וְ) ve. “and”וְרַב־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִחָ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

וְעַתָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וּבִן־ (וּ) u. “and”

Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"

וַֽאֲנִי֙ (וַֽ) va. “and”וּבְהֵמָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

וִירֽוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (וִ) vi. “and”