Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

New American Standard Bible

“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

King James Version

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Holman Bible

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness has confronted Me.”

International Standard Version

"Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city! Then cry out in protest against it, because their evil has come to my attention."

A Conservative Version

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.

Amplified

“Go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim [judgment] against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

Bible in Basic English

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

Darby Translation

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Julia Smith Translation

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me.

King James 2000

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up {before me}."

Modern King James verseion

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their evil has come up before Me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Rise and get thee to Nineveh that great city and preach unto them, how that their wickedness is come up before me."

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

The Emphasized Bible

Arise, get thee to Nineveh the great city, and proclaim unto it, - that their wickedness, hath come up, before me.

Webster

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

World English Bible

"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
go
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

to Nineveh
נינוה 
Niyn@veh 
Usage: 17

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and cry
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

is come up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

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Context Readings

Jonah Disobeys Yahweh

1 Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

2 Kings 19:36

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Jonah 3:2

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Nahum 1:1

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Jonah 4:11

and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Revelation 18:5

for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Genesis 18:20-21

And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

Ezra 9:6

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

Jeremiah 1:7-10

But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak.

Ezekiel 2:7

And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

Ezekiel 3:5-9

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Nahum 2:1-3

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

Zephaniah 2:13-15

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

Matthew 10:18

yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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