Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

So the captain came up to him and said, “How can you stay asleep? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your god will give a thought to us so that we will not perish.”

“When my soul was fainting within me,
I remembered the Lord,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

When word reached the king of Nineveh [of Jonah’s message from God], he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in the dust [in repentance].

Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.