But Jonah got up and fled from the LORD to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, secured passage on a ship bound for Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded, intending to go with the mariners to Tarshish to escape from the LORD.

And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them.

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh to do what the LORD had ordered.

When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.