¹ Da bad Jonas i Fiskens Bug til HE EN sin Gud

² og sagde: Jeg råbte i Nøden til HE EN, og han svarede mig; jeg skreg fra Dødsrigets Skød, og du hørte min øst.

³ Du kasted mig i Dybet midt i Havet, Strømmen omgav mig; alle dine Brændinger og Bølger skyllede over mig.

⁴ Jeg tænkte: "Bort er jeg stødt fra dine Øjne, aldrig mer skal jeg skue dit hellige Tempel."

⁵ Vandene trued min Sjæl, Dybet omgav mig, Tang var viklet om mit Hoved; til Bjergenes ødder

⁶ steg jeg ned, til Jordens Slåer, de evige Grundvolde; da drog du mit Liv op af Graven, HE E min Gud.

⁷ Da min Sjæl vansmægtede i mig, kom jeg HE EN i Hu, og min Bøn steg op til dig i dit hellige Tempel.

⁸ De, der dyrker det tomme Gøgl, lader Gudsfrygt fare;

⁹ men jeg vil bringe dig Ofre med Lovsangs Toner og indfri de Løfter, jeg gav. Hos HE EN er Frelse.

¹⁰ Så talede HE EN til Fisken, og den spyede Jonas ud på det tørre Land.

¹ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

² He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

³ Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

⁴ Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"

⁵ Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

⁶ Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.

⁷ But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

⁸ It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

⁹ God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."

¹⁰ Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

¹¹ Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"