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

The Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.

He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will become calm for you, for I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you.”

And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

“Water encompassed me to the point of death.
The great deep engulfed me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.

“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk.

Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”