Jonah 1:6

So the captain came to him and said to him, “What are you doing sleeping? Get up! Call upon your god! Maybe your god will notice us and we will not perish.”

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

In Context

5Then the sailors became very afraid and each man cried out to his own god. They threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was lying there deeply asleep.

7They all said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots, so that we may know who is the cause of this evil that is happening to us.” So they threw lots, and the lot fell to Jonah.

Read all of Jonah 1

Cross References

Esther 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who live in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My young girls and I will fast in the same way. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Psalms 107:6Then they called out to Yahweh in their trouble, 1 and he rescued them out of their distress. 1

Psalms 107:18They lost their desire to eat any food, 1 and they came close to the gates of death. 1

Isaiah 3:15Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” 1 This is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts. 1

Ezekiel 18:2“What do you mean, you who use this proverb concerning the land of Israel and say, 1 'Fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are made blunt'?

Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, 1 establish justice in the city gate. 1 Perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious 1 to the remnant of Joseph. 1

Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:5-11

The Prophet in the Storm; The Prophet Convicted by the Lot. ( b. c. 840.) 4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the ship-master came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Jonah 1:6