He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.
He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.
He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.
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.
O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
The waves roar, O Lord, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash.
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!
The 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.
And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.
By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.