"Rise and get thee to Nineveh that great city and preach unto them, how that their wickedness is come up before me."

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

And they said - every one unto his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may get to know for whose sake this calamity is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

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

"Up, and get thee to Nineveh that great city, and preach unto them the preaching which I bade thee."