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But Ionah rose vp to flee vnto Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD, and went downe to Ioppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he payed the fare thereof, and went downe into it, to goe with them vnto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and saide vnto him; Why hast thou done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.)

1611 marginal noteHebr. with great feare.

So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him foorth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

1611 marginal noteHebr. flood.

I went downe to the bottomes of the mountaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cuttings off.

1611 marginal noteOr, the pit.

¶ So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them euen to the least of them.

1611 marginal noteMatth.12.41. luke 11.32.

For word came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and couered him with sackcloth, & sate in ashes.

But let man and beast be couered with sackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Who can tell if God will turne and repent, and turne away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

1611 marginal noteIoel 2.14.

¶ And God saw their workes, that they turned from their euill way, and God repented of the euill that hee had sayd, that he would doe vnto them, and he did it not.

Therefore now, O LORD, Take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die then to liue.