Jonah 1:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

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  • Matt 12:40 : 40 for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.
  • Luke 11:30 : 30 for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.
  • Gen 1:21 : 21 And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that `it is' good.
  • Ps 104:25-26 : 25 This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There `are' moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great. 26 There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.
  • Jonah 4:6 : 6 And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd `with' great joy.
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.

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  • Jonah 2:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

    2And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

    3When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

  • Jonah 2:9-10
    2 verses
    83%

    9And I -- with a voice of thanksgiving -- I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation `is' of Jehovah.

    10And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

  • Matt 12:40-41
    2 verses
    80%

    40for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

    41`Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah, and lo, a greater than Jonah here!

  • Jonah 1:1-16
    16 verses
    79%

    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:

    2`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'

    3And Jonah riseth to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and goeth down `to' Joppa, and findeth a ship going `to' Tarshish, and he giveth its fare, and goeth down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.

    4And Jehovah hath cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great tempest in the sea, and the ship hath reckoned to be broken;

    5and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that `are' in the ship into the sea, to make `it' light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.

    6And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'

    7And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil `is' on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

    8And they say unto him, `Declare to us, we pray thee, on what account this evil `is' on us? what `is' thine occupation, and whence comest thou? what `is' thy country, seeing thou art not of this people?'

    9And he saith unto them, `A Hebrew I `am', and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'

    10And the men fear a great fear, and say unto him, `What `is' this thou hast done!' for the men have known that from the face of Jehovah he is fleeing, for he hath told them.

    11And they say unto him, `What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

    12And he saith unto them, `Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea doth cease from you; for I know that on my account this great tempest `is' upon you.'

    13And the men row to turn back unto the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more tempestuous against them.

    14And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

    15And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

    16and the men fear Jehovah -- a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to Jehovah, and vow vows.

  • Jonah 3:1-5
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    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

    2`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

    3and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

    4And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'

    5And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

  • Jonah 4:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

    2and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou `art' a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

  • Jonah 4:4-10
    7 verses
    72%

    4And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'

    5And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

    6And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd `with' great joy.

    7And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

    8And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'

    9And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'

    10And Jehovah saith, `Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou didst not labour, neither didst thou nourish it, which a son of a night was, and a son of a night perished,

  • Gen 1:21
    70%

    21And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that `it is' good.

  • Isa 27:1
    69%

    1In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that `is' in the sea.

  • Ps 104:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There `are' moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

    26There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.

  • Hab 1:17
    68%

    17Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?

  • Ps 124:3
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    3Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

  • Ps 107:24
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    24They have seen the works of Jehovah, And His wonders in the deep.

  • Hab 1:15
    67%

    15Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

  • Luke 5:6
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    6And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

  • Job 41:1
    67%

    1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?

  • Lev 11:9
    67%

    9`This ye do eat of all which `are' in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

  • Luke 11:30
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    30for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

  • Deut 4:18
    67%

    18a form of any creeping thing on the ground -- a form of any fish which `is' in the waters under the earth;