Jonah 1:2 - The Scriptures 1998 “Arise, go to Ninewĕ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me. [Gen. 10:11, 12.] American Standard Version (1901) Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. Common English Bible “Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come to my attention.” Catholic Public Domain Version Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Arise, and go to Ninive the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me. |
and said, “O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
“Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽ
Whenever I said, “Let me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again,” it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless.
“And you shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious.
“And they do not say to their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds have surrounded them, they have been before Me.
But truly I am filled with power, with the Spirit of יהוה, and with right-ruling and with might, to declare to Yaʽ
Your injury has no healing, your wound is grievous. All who hear news of you shall clap their hands over you. For over whom did your evil not pass continually?
“And you shall be brought before governors and sovereigns for My sake, as a witness to them and to the gentiles.
See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of יהוה of hosts.
“Because her sins have piled up to reach the heaven, and Elohim has remembered her unrighteousnesses.