Jonah 1:14
And they cry to YHWH, and say, “Ah, now, O YHWH, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not lay innocent blood on us! For You, YHWH, as You have pleased, You have done.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
15And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceases from its raging;
Cross References
Genesis 9:6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Psalms 107:28And they cry to YHWH in their adversity, || And He brings them out from their distresses.
Psalms 135:6All that YHWH pleased He has done, || In the heavens and in earth, || In the seas and all deep places,
Daniel 4:34“And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, have lifted up my eyes to the heavens, and my understanding returns to me, and I have blessed the Most High, and the Perpetual Living One I have praised and honored, whose dominion [is] a continuous dominion, and His kingdom with generation and generation;
Jonah 1:16and the men fear YHWH [with] a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to YHWH, and vow vows.
Acts 28:4And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not permit to live”;
Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:12-17
The Prophet Confesses His Folly; The Prophet Reads His Own Doom; The Prophet Cast into the Sea; Jonah's Preservation in the Fish's Belly. ( b. c. 840.) 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they… Read the whole commentary →