Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

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.