Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me.
New American Standard Bible
“Arise, go to
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!
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.
American Standard Version
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Amplified
“Go to
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.
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.'
Themes
Christian ministers » Instances of » Jonah
Disobedience to God » Exemplified » Jonah
God's Call » Examples of Leadership » Isaiah
Jonah » The reluctant missionary » Sent to a foreign field
Jonah » Sent by God to warn the city of nineveh
Nineveh » Jonah sent to proclaim the destruction of
Nineveh » Described as » Great
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jonah 1:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jonah Disobeys Yahweh
1 And the word of Jehovah shall be to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me. 3 And Jonah will rise up to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and he will go down to Joppa; and he will find a ship going to Tarshish, and be will give his hire, and he will go down in it to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 10:11
From that land shall come forth Asshur, and shall build Nineveh, and the city Reheboth, and Calah,
2 Kings 19:36
And Senherib king of Assur will turn away and go and turn back and dwell in Nineveh.
Jonah 3:2
Arise, go to Nineveh the great city, and call to it the calling which I speak to thee.
Nahum 1:1
The lifting up of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Isaiah 58:1
Call with the throat; thou shalt not spare; as a trumpet lift up thy voice, and announce to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sin.
Jonah 4:11
And shall I not spare for Nineveh the great city which there is in it more than one hundred and twenty thousand men which knew not between his right hand to his left, and many cattle?
Revelation 18:5
For her sins were followed even to heaven, and God remembered her injustices.
Genesis 18:20-21
And Jehovah will say, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah became great, and because their sin was exceedingly heavy,
Ezra 9:6
And saying, My God, I was ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face, O my God, to thee: for our iniquities were multiplied over the head, and our guilt was magnified even to the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7-10
And Jehovah will say to me, Thou shalt not say, I a boy; for thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee, and all which I shall command thee thou shalt speak
Ezekiel 2:7
And speak my word to them, if they will hear and if they will desist: for they are contradiction.
Ezekiel 3:5-9
For not to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue; thou art sent to the house of Israel;
Micah 3:8
But I was filled with power, with the spirit of Jehovah, and judgment and strength to announce to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Nahum 2:1-3
The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.
Zephaniah 2:13-15
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assur; and he will set Nineveh for a desolation, a dryness as the desert
Matthew 10:18
And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.