Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come 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.
Julia Smith Translation
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came 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 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Assyria, and built Nineveh, and the city 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 you.
Nahum 1:1
The burden concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkohshite.
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Jonah 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also many cattle?
Revelation 18:5
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Genesis 18:20-21
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave;
Ezra 9:6
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7-10
But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for you shall go to all that I shall send you, and whatsoever I command you you shall speak.
Ezekiel 2:7
And you shall speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they refuse: for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel 3:5-9
For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Micah 3:8
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of justice, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Nahum 2:1-3
He that dashes in pieces has come up before your face: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your flanks strong, fortify your 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 a wilderness.
Matthew 10:18
And you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.