Jonah 1:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But the LORD hurled a powerful wind on the sea. Such a violent tempest arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break up!

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  • Ps 107:23-31 : 23 Some traveled on the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters. 24 They witnessed the acts of the LORD, his amazing feats on the deep water. 25 He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea. 26 They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great. 27 They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective. 28 They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. 29 He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent. 30 The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet, and he led them to the harbor they desired. 31 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, is his name!”
  • Matt 8:24-27 : 24 And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep. 25 So they came and woke him up saying,“Lord, save us! We are about to die!” 26 But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm. 27 And the men were amazed and said,“What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”
  • Acts 27:13-20 : 13 When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they could carry out their purpose, so they weighed anchor and sailed close along the coast of Crete. 14 Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island. 15 When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. 16 As we ran under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the ship’s boat under control. 17 After the crew had hoisted it aboard, they used supports to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, thus letting themselves be driven along. 18 The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard, 19 and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands. 20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!
  • Exod 10:19 : 19 and the LORD turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
  • Exod 14:21 : 21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
  • Exod 15:10 : 10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • Num 11:31 : 31 Provision of Quail Now a wind went out from the LORD and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.

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  • Jonah 1:5-8
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    5The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

    6The ship’s captain approached him and said,“What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!”

    7The sailors said to one another,“Come on, let’s cast lots to find out whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us.” So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.

    8They said to him,“Tell us, whose fault is it that this disaster has overtaken us? What’s your occupation? Where do you come from? What’s your country? And who are your people?”

  • Jonah 1:10-17
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    10Hearing this, the men became even more afraid and said to him,“What have you done?”(The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape from the LORD, because he had previously told them.)

    11Because the storm was growing worse and worse, they said to him,“What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?”

    12He said to them,“Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that the sea will calm down for you, because I know it’s my fault you are in this severe storm.”

    13Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.

    14So they cried out to the LORD,“Oh, please, LORD, don’t let us die on account of this man! Don’t hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. After all, you, LORD, have done just as you pleased.”

    15So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

    16The men feared the LORD greatly, and earnestly vowed to offer lavish sacrifices to the LORD.

    17Jonah Prays(2:1) The LORD sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 1:1-3
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    1¶ Jonah Tries to Run from the Lord The LORD’s message came to Jonah son of Amittai,

    2“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

    3Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the LORD. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the LORD.

  • Mark 4:37-39
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    37Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

    38But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him,“Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

    39So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,“Be quiet! Calm down!” Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.

  • John 6:18
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    18By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

  • Matt 8:24
    77%

    24And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

  • Acts 27:13-15
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    13When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they could carry out their purpose, so they weighed anchor and sailed close along the coast of Crete.

    14Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.

    15When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

  • Ps 107:24-25
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    24They witnessed the acts of the LORD, his amazing feats on the deep water.

    25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

  • Jonah 4:6-8
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    6The LORD God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery. Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant.

    7So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

    8When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said,“I would rather die than live!”

  • Matt 14:24
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    24Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.

  • Acts 27:40-41
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    40So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.

    41But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.

  • Jonah 4:1-2
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    1Jonah Responds to God’s Kindness This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.

    2He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7With an east wind you shatter the large ships.

  • Ezek 27:26
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    26Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

  • Acts 27:17-18
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    17After the crew had hoisted it aboard, they used supports to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, thus letting themselves be driven along.

    18The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,

  • Jonah 2:10
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    10Then the LORD commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.

  • Luke 8:23-24
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    73%

    23and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.

    24They came and woke him, saying,“Master, Master, we are about to die!” So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.

  • Dan 7:2
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    2Daniel explained:“I was watching in my vision during the night as the four winds of the sky were stirring up the great sea.

  • Job 1:19
    72%

    19and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    72%

    16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • Ps 107:29
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    29He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent.

  • Matt 8:26
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    26But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

  • Exod 15:10
    71%

    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • Jonah 2:1
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    1Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish

  • Matt 14:32
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    32When they went up into the boat, the wind ceased.

  • Mark 4:41
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    41They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another,“Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!”